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unˈweaned, ppl. a. Also 6 -waynde, -wain'd. [un-1 8.] Not weaned; † immature.
1581J. Studley tr. Seneca, Herc. Œt. i. 191 b, Coulde I brooke it Toxeus, to see thy death with woe? That wert vnwaynde in yeares, and eake in pits vnpaysde. 1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 30 Blinde with affection, ignorant of truthe, Vnwain'd from self-love, never at a staye. 1607Chapman Bussy d' Ambois iv. i. 17 Or still-unwean'd sweet Moon-calues with white faces. 1799Sheridan Pizarro i. i. 13 In peace as gentle as the unweaned lamb. 1807Cogan Treatise on Passions (1813) II. 310 An unweaned affection for peculiarities which have no other claim upon us. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm III. 1123 The lambs remain unweaned, until they wean themselves. 1871G. J. Whyte-Melville Sarchedon I. 3 Like sucking fawn and unweaned child. |