tweanling

& a. [Eng. wean, s.; -ling.] A. As substantive : A child or other animal newly weaned. B. As adj .: Newly weaned. "Mine, the fairest hands, took freedom first into them A weanling child." A. C. Swinburne: Litany of Nations; Greece. weap-on (or as wep'n), *wap-en, *wep-en, *wep-on, s. [A. S. wépan =a weapon, shield, or sword; cogn. with Dut. wapen ; Icel. vápn ; Dan. vaahen; Sw. vapen ; O. H. Ger. wáfan , wappen ; Ger. waffe ; Goth. wepna . ] I. Ordinary Language : 1. An instrument of offense; particularly any instrument used, or designed to be used, in destroying or annoying an enemy, as a sword, a dagger, a rifle, a cannon, a club, or the like. "Full on the shield's round bo the weapon rung." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xiii. 256. 2. An instrument for contest or for combating enemies, either for offense or defense; anything that may be used as a help or arm in a contest. "The chief weapons of the Commons had been the power of the purse." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng . , ch. xi. II. Botany : Any proce or structure by which a plant is defended, spec. a thorn or prickle. *weapon-salve, s . A salve which was supposed to cure a wound by being applied to the weapon which had caused it. [SYMPATHETIC-POWDER.] "That the sympathetic powder and the weapon -salve constantly perform what is promised, I leave others to believe."-Boyle.