English Dictionary: Wean | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wean \Wean\, n. A weanling; a young child. I, being but a yearling wean. --Mrs. Browning. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Wean \Wean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Weaned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Weaning}.] [OE. wenen, AS. wenian, wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gew[94]hnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. v[84]nja, Dan. v[91]nne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. [be]wenian to wean, G. entw[94]hnen. See {Wont}, a.] 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. [bd]Wean them from themselves.[b8] --Shak. The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life. --Swift. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Wean Among the Hebrews children (whom it was customary for the mothers to nurse, Ex. 2:7-9; 1 Sam. 1:23; Cant. 8:1) were not generally weaned till they were three or four years old. |