Wean /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Weaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning

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.

2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.

   The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.

1. A weanling; a young child.

   I, being but a yearling wean.