spaningn.
northern and Scottish.
The action of weaning, suspending, etc.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > by suspension
spaningc1440
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > feeding > feeding offspring > weaning
weaning1382
spaningc1440
speaning1831
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 467/1 Spanynge, or wenynge of chylder, ablactacio.
c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 23 When þe childe was att spanyng, þis brewster doghter broght it vnto hym & lefte it with hym.
1516 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1869) I. 164 Vnder the payne of spayning fra the occupatioun for yeir and day.
1529 in J. D. Marwick Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1871) II. 6 [For] the thrid falt, spanyng of thar operatione.
1566 J. Knox Serm. f. 24v This weaning (or spaning as we terme it) from worldly pleasure, is a thing straunge to the flesh.
1653 in Laing Lindores Abbey (1876) 224 Took as weill wt the spaining..as any bairne could doe.
1898 E. W. Hamilton Mawkin of Flow ix. 107 The spaning of the lambs was by with.
Compounds
C1. attributive, as spaning-lamb, spaning-time.
ΚΠ
1416–17 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 317 Pro spanyng lambes.
1447 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 319 Cum ij spanynglamez et j Antonlam.
1549 in York Wills (1902) VI. 296 To..my servaunte, one spaninge quie calf.
1562 Will of Benson (Somerset Ho.) A lamb at spanyng tyme.
1582 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 58 xx lambes, to be delivered the next spaninge tyme after my deathe.
1721 A. Ramsay Robert Richy & Sandy 40 At spaining time, or at our Lambmass feast.
C2.
spaning brash n. weaning-brash; also transferred, a disease which attacks corn in the early stages of its growth.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > excretory disorders > [noun] > diarrhoea > types of
lienteria1398
lientery1547
white flux1759
cholera infantum1789
summer complaint1811
spaning brash1828
weaning-brash1844
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xxiii. 342 All the dunts and tumbles of infancy—to say nothing of the spaining-brash and the teeth-cutting.
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