Both Uses
wean
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
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- That being the case, and not wanting the cloud of debt hanging over me, favor me by taking payment for your help as of now in the form of one newborn pig, just weaned, in pink of prime.†
Chpt 3weaned = adapted
- She'll farrow at least ten pigs, spring and fall— if you breed her fresh again just three days after she weans.†
Chpt 13 *weans = adapts
Definitions:
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(1)
(wean) to adapt toin various senses, including:
- "She was weaned at 3 months." -- a mammal's adaption to the removal of breastmilk (note this is the unqualified sense)
- "I weaned myself from cigarettes." -- adapted to the gradual removal of
- "I was weaned on progressive principals" -- raised on or adapted to at a very early age.
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)