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单词 weaning
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weaningn.

/ˈwiːnɪŋ/
Etymology: -ing suffix1.
The action of wean v.; an instance of this.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > weaning
weaning1382
spaningc1440
speaning1831
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxi. 8 Abraham made a greet feest in the day of the wanyng of hym.
c1460 Oseney Reg. 91 Mylke of þere kyne fro þe tyme of þe wenyng of þe calues.
?1610 J. Fletcher Faithfull Shepheardesse i. sig. C1v Whose lambes are euer last, And dye before their weaning.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 105 This from his Weaning, let him [sc. the horse] well be taught. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Tirocinium in Task 557 This second weaning, needless as it is, How does it lac'rate both your heart and his! View more context for this quotation
1846 C. Dickens Dombey & Son (1848) viii. 65 A waiter's wife,..from within a day or two of Paul's sharp weaning, had been engaged as his nurse.
1895 G. Meredith Amazing Marriage II. xxix. 55 The time for the weaning of the babe approached.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.
weaning-brash n. (see quot.).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea > types of
lienteria1398
lientery1547
white flux1759
cholera infantum1789
summer complaint1811
spaning brash1828
weaning-brash1844
1844 R. Dunglison Dict. Med. Sci. (ed. 4) Brash, Weaning, a severe form of diarrhœa, which supervenes at times on weaning.
weaning-feast n.
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1896 A. Jessopp & M. R. James in tr. Thomas of Monmouth Life St. William of Norwich Introd. p. lxv The miracle which happened on his weaning-feast.
weaning-time n.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 139v The Lambes..must be well cherished in their weaning time with good pasture.
C2. With sense ‘in process of weaning’.
weaning calf n.
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1598 in J. P. Rylands Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1897) 8 To the children of John Holcrofte my best weaning calf.
1778 Reading Mercury & Oxf. Gaz. 30 Nov. A weaning Bull Calf.
1844 F. Marryat Settlers in Canada xxviii He also took six weaning calves to bring up.
weaning child n.
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1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 110 Like weaning child that's lost its rattle.
1913 E. Nesbit in New Witness 23 Jan. 369 The limbs of our weaning children You crushed in your mills of power.
weaning colt n.
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?1530 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry (rev. ed.) f. xliiii And there be moche gras..than put in calues newly wayned..and also waynyng coltes.
weaning lamb n.
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1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 31 To house, and feed by hand my weaning Lambs.
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