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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.

Quality or state of being weaned.

A weanling. [Obs.] Spenser.

a. & n. from Wean, v. The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel man. J. H. Walsh. Weaning brash. (Med.) See under Brash.

To wean. [R.] Bailey.

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. Blount.

to make indifferent of averse, where love or friendship before subsisted; to estrange; to wean; -- with from. The errors which . . . alienated a loyal gentry and priesthood from the House of Stuart. Macaulay. The recollection of his former life is a dream that only the more alienates him from the realities of the prese…

hot sensation in the stomach with a rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis. -- Weaning brash (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which sometimes attacks children just weaned.

A venomous serpent which which cannot now be identified. The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's

The act of weaning. [Obs.] Bailey.

To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom. Johnson.

An offspring; progeny; child; scion. [Obs.] The tender imp was weaned. Fairfax.

To wean. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

Specifically: A whale two years old, which, having been weaned, is lean, and yields but little blubber.

See Weanel. [Obs.] Tusser.