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Definition of wean:

  • (verb) gradually deprive (infants and young mammals) of mother's milk;
  • (verb) detach the affections of

Sentence Examples:

The first thing she objected to was being weaned, which she evidently considered a very cruel and unnecessary experience.

With a force so far inferior to his rival's, and still more with the conviction that the hearts of the people were weaned from him, he might well hesitate as to the course he should adopt.

And the third bed, a cradle, was occupied by Mademoiselle Rose, fifteen months of age and weaned for three weeks past.

Nor can I persuade myself, but that the people may be weaned from the habit of poisoning themselves.

I venture to claim that I have succeeded by patient reasoning in weaning the party of violence from its ways.

His beaming satisfaction in everything she did or said would have been delightful had I been able to wean my thoughts from the place which he still believed to be- -Eden.

The attempt to wean a delicate child, for instance, when only six months old, will inevitably be followed by disorder of the stomach and bowels.

Certain rules and regulations must be adopted to effect weaning safely, the details of which are given elsewhere.

These results, however, have already been sufficiently dwelt upon as likely to take place at weaning, and they may of course occur to a child who is brought up on an artificial diet at any period.

The mother's health may, in one case, oblige her to resort to weaning before the sixth month, and, in another instance, the delicacy of the infant's health, to delay it beyond the twelfth.

Nevertheless, as a general rule, both child and parent being in good health, weaning ought never to take place earlier than the ninth (the most usual date), and never delayed beyond the twelfth month.

We have no means of knowing at what period of his life his heart was weaned from the religion of David, or when he entered upon a life of pleasure.

This period will, of course, be longer or shorter according as the teeth begin to appear earlier or later, and according to the time when it is thought proper to wean.

On few points, perhaps, has there existed a greater diversity of opinion than in regard to the age most proper for weaning.

A serious mistake is often made, in connection with weaning, in giving the child not only too much food, but that which is too solid, or too rich.

Heaven forbid that I should seek to wean your heart from the friends who have cared so kindly for you!

For puppies newly weaned it is well to limit the supply of milk foods and to avoid red meat.

It must be admitted that Griffons are not the easiest of dogs to rear, particularly at weaning time.

After the puppies are weaned, their food should be of bone-making quality, and they require ample space for exercise and play.

In fact, my mother had been weaned at three months old, that the babe of the mistress might obtain sufficient food.

When she weaned the child, I said to my wife, "How long shall we remain here, and how shall we get out from hence?"

And I just let the wondering wean slip to the grass, and I threw my arms about her and cried, "Oh, mother, mother, forgive me, and love me just a little!"

When their children were weaned, they sent the boys to their fathers, but kept the girls, precisely as did the Amazons.

This Indian had traveled with Will for a time, but could not be weaned from his loyalty to his own tribe and a desire to avenge upon the white man the wrongs inflicted on his people.

A brief martial career seemed to have weaned them from the arts of peace and the love of their kindred.

Such business, during the four years which he passed with Stuart, did not wean Lincoln from his natural fondness for matters political.

The children are not weaned till very late, and then are allowed to feed all day without restriction on boiled maize, or beans, or whatever other vegetable diet may be eaten by the family.

They are always nursed by the mother, and not often weaned until they are four or five years old.

I must strive to wean myself from everything; if I were only secure that my great sacrifices would bring forth worthy fruits!

About eleven o'clock all the women who had little children that had not been weaned would come in to see after them and let them suck.

Many of these are typical of life; for example, a boy at play, a pair of lovers, a mother weaning her child, and the parting of friends.

This boy, stronger and handsomer than any child yet born, required no less than ten nurses, and after being weaned ate as much as five men!

Her emotional reaction against nursing took away her milk, and finally the disgusted family doctor ordered the baby weaned, and he was turned over to a servant.

After weaning me from you these five years by saying he was my father, he should not have done this.

Another woman was asked to do the same; but, although her child was half weaned, she flatly refused.

On the day when Isaac was weaned, Abraham made a great feast, to which he invited all the people of the land.

When weaning is resented, and difficulties of this sort arise, it is clear that the mother, whose breast is close at hand, is at a great disadvantage in combating the child's opposition.

The moral of her prediction was that, being in a delicate state of health, and having "let myself low" before baby was born, it was my duty to wean her immediately.

Then she asked me how old baby was and whether I was nursing her myself, and I answered that baby was six weeks and I had been forced to wean her, being supposed to be delicate, and besides...

That which arguments cannot do in the way of weaning men from party prejudice the picture crusade accomplishes.

If they refuse to be weaned away from their independence they cannot continue to enjoy the benefits extended to them.

Any honest observer of life knows that the only sincere relation possible between the young and the old (after the babies are weaned) is hostility.

Meanwhile, his own feelings were becoming interested, beyond, perhaps, the power of control, the sooner, therefore, he weaned himself from the delightful fascination, the better for his peace of mind.

As for the Solitary, who survived his brother many years, he could never be weaned from the mode of life he had adopted.

When should a child who is weaned from the breast be taught to drink from the cup, and when to take the bottle?

If weaning is done as early as the eighth or ninth month it is better to give the bottle; if from the tenth to the twelfth month the infant should be taught to drink or be fed with a spoon.

If the child is two or more years old, the only effective means of weaning from the bottle is through hunger.

It was evident that he had not allowed his conversion to wean him from this kind of indulgence.

The extended tour abroad, planned with a purpose just as his college course was ended, had weaned him completely from his home.

Wean them from their native cruelty by imparting to them some of your own positive sympathy with an animal's inner springs of joy.

They are kept in runs twenty feet by one hundred, in bunches of from twenty to forty, according to age, from the time they are weaned until they leave the place for good.

In August wean lambs, and put them in good pasture, and in winter put them in fresh pasture until spring, and then put them with the 'holding' sheep.

In this she showed rather a feminine lack of logic, for, while wishing to wean him from his vice, she did not herself give up going to the Casino.

They should be grown subsequently to weaning on pasture, with one to two pounds of grain added daily.

If a second litter is wanted during a year the sows should be put to the boar during the first heat after weaning.

When milk has been the chief food, and the weaning is sudden, usually growth will be more or less arrested.

The whole race has been weaned by them; every country has been nursed into manhood in their arms.

If they both decide on weaning, by mutual consent, and after due consultation, there is no blame on them.

I have begun with many a blue jacket hail-fellow-well-met in my own rough way, and have ended in weaning him from wicked courses.

The thing that Frederick could not wean himself from was that sweet, fair, frail, pathetic body.

And now, as it had weaned him once from his grief for the woman who had died, it was at him again to draw him away from the woman who was living.

I thought that I noticed that she knew her nurse, though as soon as she was weaned, she failed to recognize her mother.

Once he proposed to wean me upon that from my distinctive vice, which led indeed to our first rupture.

My mother had a fit of sickness when my little brother was but seven months old, and she was obliged to wean him at that early age.

He told her he had early weaned himself from the love of Lenten Services, observing their effect upon the unfortunate lady, his aunt, who had brought him up.

She had only two, and was not often allowed to look at them, lest they wean her heart away from more serious things.

I was sorry to leave Windsor: but now I am weaned from this local attachment; I am content to remove to a mild climate, which will complete my recovery.

Other fish who have just been weaned and are beginning to notice solid food will repeatedly take a hook too large to swallow, and be dragged into the boat, literally, by the skin of the teeth.

Surely I have behaved and quieted myself as a child that is weaned of its mother; my soul is even as a weaned child.

Though I had no more sulfur tea to drink, I was not yet weaned from the invisible milk and water.

I am not a soldier, and having long been weaned from Alma Mater, of course have left off my college cap.

All that art and education, wealth, travel and luxury combined could do, was done to wean her from her passionate adoration of this superb young savage.

They came to the decision that they had better move from the vicinity of the river and so wean him from his unnatural love of the water.

The high rewards offered did not suffice to wean from him the attachment of the people, and more than once he owed his safety to their loyalty.

When the boy had reached the age of a year, he was weaned; from that time his mental development was very rapid.

On the other hand it would be decidedly better to defer the weaning until the fall, rather than risk weaning at the tenth or twelfth months if these fall during the height of the hot weather.

The best reason for weaning a child at the twelfth month is that a mother's milk after that time is not adequate in quality for a child of that age.

If the weaning is gradual it is necessary to press out enough milk to relieve the tension from time to time.

Perhaps she saw in him a method of weaning her cousin from traffic with the powers of darkness.

Even he, so strong and resolute, who had so often smiled grim death out of countenance, feared the kiss which might wean him from the narrow way.

There had been moments when she had argued that her vanity had its rights, for had it not played its part in weaning her from the world?

Here it was neither hot nor cold, but like the climate in spring when the lambs are being weaned.

Both male and female of the litter suffer alike until after weaning time, and then only the males.

This old cat had two litters of kittens while she was a "member" of our section, and they were all grabbed up as soon as weaned, by both officers and men alike.

If a woman goes wrong with a man of another caste she is not finally cast out, but if she has a child she must first dispose of it to somebody else after it is weaned.

If she'd been imposed upon an' weaned away by his lies an' had regretted me a little I'd have forgiven, perhaps.

These bottles are increased in number until, by the time the baby is a year old, he is gradually weaned from the breast.

Under no circumstances should the baby be weaned and compelled to use cow's milk during the season of the year when the risks of contamination are greatest.

If you desire to wean him from his bottle, serve the first part of it with a spoon from a cup or glass and then give him the remainder in the bottle.

It seems to me that the first thing to do is to wean him from that terrible love of low companions.

If I thought Alice would ever see these lines I should not say to you now that from the two great sorrows of those years my heart has never been and never shall be weaned.

I am a man loose upon the world, weaned by suffering and misfortune from earth, and ready at any hour to depart from it.

We came to the conclusion that Scotch babies were weaned upon this beverage, for the law forbade the carrying of that number of grown passengers by the Giraffe.

It would certainly be far better that they should have the natural nourishment, but I do not say that they would necessarily suffer from being weaned.

Besides, in consequence of its new acquisition, the child sucks less perfectly than before, an additional proof that weaning ought at this period to be commenced.

As a general rule, at nine months after birth the child ought to be entirely weaned; and in no instance should he be permitted to suck more than ten.

He was weaned slowly back from the grave by special nurses and treatment, till it began to dawn upon him that he might have to stand his trial.

"Just what she needed: a change of air and scene to wean her away from her former owners and make her happy."

Woman's proper round is to wish for a child, and to nurse it, and, when it has been weaned, to get herself ready to have another one.

I began with them as soon as they were weaned; before that time I did not consider I ought to interfere with my wife.