Wean

Definition of Wean

v. t.1.
[imp. & p. p. Weaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning.]
1.To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned.
- Gen. xxi. 8.
2.Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
- Swift.
n.1.A weanling; a young child.
I, being but a yearling wean.
- Mrs. Browning.

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