weanling

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: wean=ling

CIDE DICTIONARY

weanling, a. & n. 

 a. & n. from Wean, v.  [1913 Webster]
"The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel man."  [1913 Webster]

Weaning brash. (Med.) See under Brash.

weanling, n. [Wean + -ling.].

 A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.  [1913 Webster]

weanling, a. 

 Recently weaned.  Milton.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

weanling, n. a newly-weaned child etc.

ROGET THESAURUS

weanling

Infant

N infant, babe, baby, babe in arms, nurseling, suckling, yearling, weanling, papoose, bambino, kid, vagitus, child, bairn, little one, brat, chit, pickaninny, urchin, bantling, bratling, elf, youth, boy, lad, stripling, youngster, youngun, younker, callant, whipster, whippersnapper, whiffet, schoolboy, hobbledehoy, hopeful, cadet, minor, master, scion, sap, seedling, tendril, olive branch, nestling, chicken, larva, chrysalis, tadpole, whelp, cub, pullet, fry, callow, codlin, codling, foetus, calf, colt, pup, foal, kitten, lamb, lambkin, aurelia, caterpillar, cocoon, nymph, nympha, orphan, pupa, staddle, girl, lass, lassie, wench, miss, damsel, demoiselle, maid, maiden, virgin, hoyden, infantine, infantile, puerile, boyish, girlish, childish, babyish, kittenish, baby, newborn, unfledged, new-fledged, callow, in the cradle, in swaddling clothes, in long clothes, in arms, in leading strings, at the breast, in one's teens.