- Deprive of mother’s milk - disengage gradually - Withdraw by degrees - 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. - Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any
object of desire; to reconcile to the want or loss of anything. - A weanling; a young child.