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Wain, v. Also: vain, uain, wean. [ME and e.m.E. wene(n (14th c.), wain(en (Trevisa), wean (1592), OE węnian to accustom; once, to wean, MLG, MDu. wennen, ON venja.] tr.To wean (a child or animal). Also in fig. context and attrib. 1580-92 James VI Lusus Reg. 5.
Quhen it [sc. the baby] sukking is or uained the foode may quholsome be a1649 Drummond II 259/51.
The swellow tuise the spring about hath brocht, Tuise hath ve vaind the yonglins of our flockes Since [etc.] 1691 Kirk Secr. Commonw. (1964) 230.
When the child is wained, the nurse or dies, or is conveyed back, or gets it to her choice to stay therefig. 1602 Three Reformers 132.
Some helpes for young schollers in Christianity … heere we have to doe but with rude beginners, that are wained from the milk (as it were) and drawen from the breasts 1611-57 Mure Psalmes cxxxi.
If I haue not my soule Compos'd and putt to rest, Evin as a babe, from mother's breast That waind isattrib. 1611-57 Mure Psalmes cxxxi.
My soule is as a weaned child