| 释义 |
weaning, vbl. n.|ˈwiːnɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the vb. wean; an instance of this.
1382Wyclif Gen. xxi. 8 Abraham made a greet feest in the day of the wanyng of hym. c1460Oseney Reg. 91 Mylke of þere kyne fro þ⊇ tyme of þ⊇ wenyng of þe calues. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Sheph. 1, Whose Lambs are ever last And dye before their waining. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 295 This from his Weaning, let him [the horse] well be taught. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 557 This second weaning, needless as it is, How does it lac'rate both your heart and his! 1848Dickens Dombey viii, A waiter's wife,..from within a day or two of Paul's sharp weaning, had been engaged as his nurse. 1895Meredith Amazing Marr. xxix, The time for the weaning of the babe approached.
b. Comb. as weaning-feast, weaning-time; with sense ‘in process of weaning’, as weaning calf, weaning child, weaning colt, weaning lamb; weaning-brash (see quot.).
1844Dunglison Med. Lex. (ed. 4), Brash, *Weaning,..A severe form of diarrhœa, which supervenes at times on weaning.
1598in Lancs. & Chesh. Wills (Chetham Soc. 1897) III. 8 To the children of John Holcrofte my best *weaning calf. 1778Reading Merc. & Oxf. Gaz. 30 Nov., A weaning Bull Calf. 1844Marryat Settlers in Canada xxviii, He also took six weaning calves to bring up.
1820Clare Rural Life (ed. 3) 110 Like *weaning child that's lost its rattle. 1913E. Nesbit in New Witness 23 Jan. 369 The limbs of our weaning children You crushed in your mills of power.
1523–34Fitzherb. Husb. §135 If there be moche grasse..than put in calues newly wained..and also *waynynge coltes.
1896Jessopp & James Life St. William of Norwich p. lxv, The miracle which happened on his *weaning-feast.
1697Dryden Virg. Past. vii. 21 To house, and feed by hand my *weaning Lambs.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 139 b, The Lambes..must be well cherished in their *weaning time with good pasture. |