drynurse

dry +‎ nurse

drynurse (third-person singular simple present drynurses, present participle drynursing, simple past and past participle drynursed)

1. To feed, attend, and bring up without suckling.
   • 1662, [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

     As Romulus a wolf did rear,
     So he was dry-nursed by a bear,
     That fed him with the purchased prey
     Of many a fierce and bloody fray.

drynurse in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913