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Weaning brash

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

Brash \Brash\, n. [See {Brash} brittle.]
   1. A rash or eruption; a sudden or transient fit of sickness.

   2. Refuse boughs of trees; also, the clippings of hedges.
      [Prov. Eng.] --Wright.

   3. (Geol.) Broken and angular fragments of rocks underlying
      alluvial deposits. --Lyell.

   4. Broken fragments of ice. --Kane.

   {Water brash} (Med.), an affection characterized by a
      spasmodic pain or hot sensation in the stomach with a
      rising of watery liquid into the mouth; pyrosis.

   {Weaning brash} (Med.), a severe form of diarrhea which
      sometimes attacks children just weaned.
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