- (a.) Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything.
- (n.) A weanling; a young child.
- (a.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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