WEAN
\wˈiːn], \wˈiːn], \w_ˈiː_n]\
Definitions of WEAN
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
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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.
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A weanling; a young child.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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A weanling; a young child.
By Noah Webster.
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To cease to feed (a child) by nursing; to alienate, or separate, the affections of, from any object or habit.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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To accustom to do without the breast: to reconcile to the want of anything: to estrange the affections from any object or habit.
By Daniel Lyons
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To accustom to do without being suckled; to reconcile to the want of anything: withdraw the affections.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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