| 单词 | weaning | 
| 释义 | weaningn.  The action of wean v.; an instance of this. ΘΚΠ 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.). ΘΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ 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. ΚΠ ?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. ΚΠ 1697    J. Dryden tr.  Virgil Pastorals  vii, in  tr.  Virgil Wks. 31  				To house, and feed by hand my weaning Lambs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online September 2018). <  | 
	
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