Wean: alternatives and connections

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

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

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

a condition in which milk is not secreted in the mother's breasts after her child has been delivered

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

Coagulated sour milk; loppered milk; curdled milk; -- sometimes called simply clabber.

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

The young from the same dam, whether produced at the same time or not; young children of the same mother, especially if nearly of the…

A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only.

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

The rich, oily, and yellowish part of milk, which, when the milk stands unagitated, rises, and collects on the surface. It is the part…

State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness,…

an udder or breast or teat

The milk secreted just before, or directly after, the birth of a child or of the young of an animal; colostrum.

Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc.,…

A father's or mother's father; an ancestor in the next degree above the father or mother in lineal ascent.

The mother of one's father or mother.

To accustom to the hand; to work upon, or take care of, with the hands.