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Ablactation

The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Commutation 76% connected

A passing from one state to another; change; alteration; mutation.

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Exchange 76% connected

The act of giving or taking one thing in return for another which is regarded as an equivalent; as, an exchange of cattle for grain.

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Substitution 76% connected

The act of substituting or putting one person or thing in the place of another; as, the substitution of an agent, attorney, or representative to act…

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Weaning 92% connected

of Wean

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Adopt verb · 78% connection

To take by choice into relationship, as, child, heir, friend, citizen, etc.; esp. to take voluntarily (a child of other parents) to be…

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Adoption noun · 78% connection

a legal proceeding that creates a parent-child relation between persons not related by blood; the adopted child is entitled to all pri…

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Affiliate verb · 78% connection

To fix the paternity of; -- said of an illegitimate child; as, to affiliate the child to (or on or upon) one man rather than another.

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Amphidromical adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the…

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Auf noun · 78% connection

A changeling or elf child, -- that is, one left by fairies; a deformed or foolish child; a simpleton; an oaf.

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Bastard noun · 78% connection

A "natural" child; a child begotten and born out of wedlock; an illegitimate child; one born of an illicit union.

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Bosom noun · 78% connection

The part of the dress worn upon the breast; an article, or a portion of an article, of dress to be worn upon the breast; as, the bosom…

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Breast noun · 78% connection

Anything resembling the human breast, or bosom; the front or forward part of anything; as, a chimney breast; a plow breast; the breast…

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Breast-deep adjective · 78% connection

Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast.

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Breasting noun · 78% connection

The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circu…

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Breastplate noun · 78% connection

A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.

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Caravan noun · 78% connection

A large, covered wagon, or a train of such wagons, for conveying wild beasts, etc., for exhibition; an itinerant show, as of wild beas…

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Chicken noun · 78% connection

A young person; a child; esp. a young woman; a maiden.

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Child noun · 78% connection

One who, by character of practice, shows signs of relationship to, or of the influence of, another; one closely connected with a place…

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Childlike adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a child, or that which belongs to children; becoming a child; meek; submissive; dutiful.

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Childly adjective · 78% connection

Having the character of a child; belonging, or appropriate, to a child.

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Delactation noun · 78% connection

The act of weaning.

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Drive verb · 78% connection

To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carr…

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