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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 truth is, my friend, I am getting weaned of the French people.

He was as familiar with the literature of the day as are the crowd of common readers who know no other, yet he suffered not the brilliant novelties of the hour to wean his admiration from the authors whose reputation has stood the test of time.

It is only by patient argument with such honest men that one is able to check oneself, correct one's own errors of judgment and at times to wean them from their error and bring them over to one's side.

Diarrhea is very frequent from the time of weaning to the third year of age, and certainly in its effects forms so important a disease, that, unless in the slight form noticed above, a mother is not justified in attempting its relief.

This whim being entertained, the child is weaned, and too often becomes the victim of a most reprehensible delusion.

Nor could change of circumstances wean my grateful thoughts from Grandpa and Grandma Brunner.

"Under the old system, mothers were required to work half the time after their children were six weeks old; but now we do not call them out for nine months after their confinement, until their children are entirely weaned."

We were always the best of friends, and I even ventured gradually to wean them from cannibalism.

The young of the less developed quadrupeds are soon weaned and forgotten by their parents.

Weaned children to the age of ten are entitled to half the above ration.

Why should I be put into my clothes and taken out of them again as though I hadn't been weaned yet?

It will be a heavy cross to part with those dear people, Brother Ware, but if anything could wean me to the notion, so to speak, it would be the knowledge that you are to take up my labors in their midst.

Some persons wean the calf from the mother from its birth, never allowing it to suck at all: the little creature is kept fasting the first twenty-four hours; it is then fed with the finger with new milk, which it soon learns to take readily.

Parsons tried to wean Nicky from what he pretended to regard as his unmanly weakness.

Nor could she wean Louise from association with the piratical looking mariner at Cap'n Abe's store.

I weaned her last carnival.

In these narrow craft their children are born and brought up, tied by a cord round their foot, in their infancy, to keep them from falling overboard, and tasting for their first food, after being weaned, the fish of the lake dried in the sun.

The difficulty of weaning from the breast recurs with great constancy in nervous children.

If we watch an infant after weaning, at the time when his diet is gradually being enlarged to include more solid food, with new and varied flavors, we may see his attention arrested by the strange sensations.

He had not been weaned when I kidnapped him.

The room which weaned me from aboriginal life was at the top of the central building.

Their friendship weaned him by degrees from the jaundiced view of life which Margaret's dereliction had induced.

She is nourishing, besides, a weak child of mine that has just been weaned.

If the child has made no gain for three or four weeks, or is losing weight, immediate weaning will probably be necessary; in any case, other food in addition to the breast milk should be given at once.

This is a matter of great convenience during the whole period of nursing when the mother or nurse is from necessity away from the child for a few hours; when more feeding is required at weaning time the child does not object.

With children who are not ill, weaning from the bottle should invariably be begun at the end of the first year, and after a child is thirteen or fourteen months old the bottle should not be given except at the night feeding.

She begged her to send for Harry and to stay for dinner, and Lucy was delighted at the invitation but said she could not leave her children because Agnes was not yet weaned and "she will need me and cry for me."

Heredity impels the cow to do this, and it would take generations of wild life to wean her from it.

And lately she had begun to think that she was gradually weaning her friend from what she knew to be in his case, whatever it was in hers, and in that of many of the people about them, the terrible vice of gambling.

When pigs are weaned, and previously, there is nothing better than shorts and skim milk.

If they desire to wean the child by mutual consent and (after) consultation, it is no sin for them; and if ye wish to give your children out to nurse, it is no sin for you, provide that ye pay what is due from you in kindness.

I do not want to be weaned by age; or drop like mellow fruit, as they say, into the grave.

It was play, and play of the sort that weans the white man from civilization to savagery.

He is not weaned till the advent of another child, or till he of his own accord relinquishes the breast.

A drunkard or a gambler may be weaned from his ways, but not a politician.

Every effort was made to wean them from the habit which, they alleged, had "seized them in a death grip."

A gentleman present said it was utterly impracticable to try and wean the American people from the habit of drinking.

You are not yet weaned from that English cur whose life, let me tell you, is in my hands.

Menstruation is not an indication for weaning as has been explained.

When weaning has to be done quickly the patient should absolutely abstain from all liquids.

I wrote Turner Simpson to send you the pup when it was old enough to wean.

This is the reason hired nurses often transmit to the child their own physical features and countless moral tendencies which last some time after weaning; orphans, too, morally, often resemble the strangers who have brought them up.

Gradually she weaned herself from him, and, satisfied with seeing him occasionally and hearing the reports of Dr Middleton, she at last was quite reconciled to his being at school, and not coming back except during the holidays.

The child had been weaned, and removed to the cottage, where it occupied much of the attention of the old housekeeper and Forster, who, despairing of its ever being reclaimed, determined to bring it up as his own.

I was heartbroken, but not weaned from him; I counted the days for his return.

There is a talisman in that word mine, that not approaching death can wean from life.

Ewes were driven into the interior until their lambs were weaned, when they were returned to their owners.

When he opened it and saw the little child in it, he had pity on the innocent child, took it home to his wife, and said: "My dear wife, our youngest child is already old enough to wean; nurse in its place this poor innocent child."

They often find it necessary to wean before the end of the usual period of lactation.

This gradual change will neither fret the child nor annoy the mother, as sudden weaning always does.

Other men, who had been good fellows and had run with the boys, had married and been weaned from their old companions, bringing out women who did not "fit in," who felt superior to the cowboys and did not take the trouble to hide their feelings.

After some time other ducks were procured, and, to induce it to mix with its natural companions, the pet duck was driven out day by day; but there was great difficulty in weaning it from the kind friend to whom it had attached itself.

We can try the method of weaning the baby from the comforter by tying a ribbon to it and to the child's bodice.

Did she wish to wean the tempestuous Judy from her old friends?

And the quantity need not, during the ensuing six weeks (after which it is weaned), exceed a couple of gallons per day.

She fretted herself to fever at his untimely weaning.

Much difficulty was experienced in weaning the people from their old custom of barter and inducing them to use coins.

After the child had been weaned it was fed by the dry nurse and the mother with pap, made chiefly of honey.

She only meant to wean him from pessimism and rebuild within him a healthy appetite for life.

Neither France nor Ireland had availed to wean his son from his religious eccentricities.

We have not often read a sentence falling from a wise man with astonishment so profound, as that particular one in a letter of Coleridge's to Mr Gillman, which speaks of the effort to wean one's-self from opium as a trivial task.

Often she tried, as gently as might be, to wean him from this fanatic worship of the Muses.

He hooted, and Billy bit her lip, for she thought she had weaned him from his master.

Davies might still be weaned from his infatuation.

This man abhors royalty: he hates the Bourbons, and neglects no means to wean his army from them.

When poverty forces nursing mothers to wean their babies and seek work outside their homes, one can only say that a society which tolerates such a waste of infant life is indeed regardless of its own welfare.

By this means you have your pups ready to wean by the middle of April.

Probably it may be owing to their being weaned upon garbage or putrid flesh.

There are certain forms of mysticism, mostly Indian, which would wean us from all this.

Parsnips, Swedish turnips, roots of dandelion; for too much green or watery stuff is not good for weaning rabbits.

She is subdued and mild, Quiet and docile "as a weaned child."

Should perchance a litter weaned thus early cease to grow the excuses made will be various.

There is also another advantage apart from that to the sow and pigs, it is that the sow will almost invariably come in heat within three or four days of the weaning, and with the best possible chance of becoming in pig.

Rinaldo, youthful, vehement, impassioned, is the ideal of a hero not yet weaned from the passions of the world.

The new intercourse with my guardian, and the changes of scene which naturally it led to, were of use in weaning my mind from the mere disease which threatened it in case I had been left any longer to my total solitude.

Wean all at once, with bitter aloes or some similar devices; and change the diet suddenly.

"Also absence from the place would have weaned you youngsters away from it," the judge continued.

The female, with her large family, should be given plenty of food from the time the young are a few days old until weaned, as she requires a great deal of food to satisfy her cravings and to supply the numerous young.

The oily curls and big knife of Mad Jeremy had weaned me from the love of adventure.

He weans himself even from his native land imputing to it the injustice of fate.

To occupy one's self with trifles weans from the habit of work more effectually than idleness.

Of course, healthy chickens are growing all the time, and growing at a very rapid rate, too; but after the chicks are weaned, they have usually reached the point in growth when the increase in size in a short period is very noticeable.

She had need to be expeditious, poor wean, for she received just one farthing for every hundred packages she made!

She averred she would not give up the child till he was weaned.

Up to the middle of the last century it probably had a more vital influence in weaning people from the world and in turning their thoughts to religious things than any other single book except the Bible.

As he occupied a pastoral farm of considerable extent, his own property, he chanced likewise to be out at his folds on the day above-mentioned, with his own servants, and some neighbors, weaning a part of his lambs, and shearing a few sheep.

Our Revolution, so wise in its conception and so glorious in its execution, was the mere assertion by adults of the rights of adults, and had nothing more to do with philosophy than the weaning of a calf.

This, indeed, was the only way to wean him from the detestable Clive-Hart, and others, whom he frequented.

No sensible woman will desire to keep her husband always at her side, nor can any woman make a more profound mistake than to try and wean the man she has married away from all his old friends and associations.

He had acquainted himself with Barlow's history and felt that he could wean him over.

I have often, since then, wondered at the strange mistake Miriam committed in leaving him, and thinking she had weaned him from his art; his passion for it was a part of his nature, and not to be taken up or laid down at will.

Incidentally, his enthusiasm served to wean Sir Geoffrey's mind from acrimonious criticism of politicians.

That is the secret of our home happiness: he does not let business wean him from the little cares and duties that affect us all, and I try not to let domestic worries destroy my interest in his pursuits.

Under these untoward circumstances you were early weaned.

No two figures can be more opposite than a stubborn bullock and a weaned child.

The best of it is, that it will be a little fortune to the keeper, and a dowry to his weans.

All too late his wife saw the blunder she had made, and tried to wean him back to sobriety.

And when the weaning time comes, it is plain that the food should be at first as like as possible to that which is given up; thin, smooth, moderately warm, fresh, and sweet, and given as leisurely as the mother's milk is drawn.

There are those again, older and more mature, who have not made experience of life in its harsher and sadder aspects sufficient to wean them from Wilde's theory, in which they are interested from a purely academic point of view.

I weaned the rascal as soon as possible, not knowing what his taste for blood might come to, if too freely indulged.