dry nurse

I seem to need a dry nurse quite as much as my children.

The young man was more than content that Edward Ambrose should take charge of his literary affairs and "dry nurse him" through these early and in some ways very critical months of his fame.

You set back there if you want to, and play dry nurse to your twins—your family scandal on one arm and your governor’s boom on the other.

After the child had been weaned it was fed by the dry nurse and the mother with pap, made chiefly of honey.

I’m no dry nurse to fellows shy of sand.