Syn. — Riches; affluence; opulence; abundance.
Wealthful
(Wealth"ful) a. Full of wealth; wealthy; prosperous. [R.] Sir T. More. — Wealth"ful*ly, adv.
[R.]
Wealthily
(Wealth"i*ly) adv. In a wealthy manner; richly.
I come to wive it wealthily in Padua.
Shak. Wealthiness
(Wealth"i*ness), n. The quality or state of being wealthy, or rich; richness; opulence.
Wealthy
(Wealth"y) a. [Compar. Wealthier ; superl. Wealthiest.]
1. Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
A wealthy Hebrew of my tribe.
Shak.
Thou broughtest us out into a wealthy place.
Ps. lxvi. 12. 2. Hence, ample; full; satisfactory; abundant. [R.]
The wealthy witness of my pen.
B. Jonson. Wean
(Wean) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Weaned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Weaning.] [OE. wenen, AS. wenian,
wennan, to accustom; akin to D. wennen, G. gewöhnen, OHG. giwennan, Icel. venja, Sw. vänja, Dan.
vænne, Icel. vanr accustomed, wont; cf. AS. awenian to wean, G. entwöhnen. See Wont, a.]
1. To accustom and reconcile, as a child or other young animal, to a want or deprivation of mother's
milk; to take from the breast or udder; to cause to cease to depend on the mother nourishment.
And the child grew, and was weaned; and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was
weaned.
Gen. xxi. 8. 2. Hence, to detach or alienate the affections of, from any object of desire; to reconcile to the want or
loss of anything. "Wean them from themselves." Shak.
The troubles of age were intended . . . to wean us gradually from our fondness of life.
Swift. Wean
(Wean), n. A weanling; a young child.
I, being but a yearling wean.
Mrs. Browning. Weanedness
(Wean"ed*ness), n. Quality or state of being weaned.
Weanel
(Wean"el) n. A weanling. [Obs.] Spenser.
Weanling
(Wean"ling), a. & n. from Wean, v.
The weaning of the whelp is the great test of the skill of the kennel man.
J. H. Walsh. Weaning brash. (Med.) See under Brash.
Weanling
(Wean"ling) n. [Wean + - ling.] A child or animal newly weaned; a wean.
Weanling
(Wean"ling), a. Recently weaned. Milton.
