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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
ablactation
    n 1: the cessation of lactation
    2: the act of substituting other food for the mother's milk in
       the diet of a child or young mammal [syn: weaning,
       ablactation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ablactation \Ab`lac*ta"tion\ n.
   1. The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts
      from their dam. --Blount.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Hort.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or
      grafting by approach.
      [1913 Webster]

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