nursemaid vs dry nurse

nursemaid and dry nurse both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
nursemaid	Yes	No	No	No
dry nurse	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dry nurse is a hyponym of nursemaid; that is, dry nurse is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than nursemaid:

Other hyponyms of nursemaid include mammy, amah, wet-nurse, wet nurse, wetnurse.

nursemaid (noun)	dry nurse (noun)
a woman who is the custodian of children	a nurse who cares for but does not suckle an infant