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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wane \Wane\, v. t.
To cause to decrease. [Obs.] --B. Jonson
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wane \Wane\, n.
1. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the
eye of a spectator.
2. Decline failure; diminution; decrease; declension.
An age in which the church is in its wane. --South.
Though the year be on the wane. --Keble.
3. An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wane \Wane\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Waned}; p. pr & vb n.
{Waning}.] [OE. wanien, AS wanian, wonian, from wan, won,
deficient, wanting; akin to D. wan-, G. wahnsinn insanity,
OHG. wan, wana-, lacking, wan?n to lessen, Icel. vanr
lacking, Goth. vans; cf Gr ? bereaved, Skr. ?na wanting,
inferior. ????. Cf {Want} lack, and {Wanton}.]
1. To be diminished; to decrease; -- contrasted with {wax},
and especially applied to the illuminated part of the
moon.
Like the moon, aye wax ye and wane. Waning moons
their settled periods keep --Addison.
2. To decline to fail to sink.
You saw but sorrow in its waning form --Dryden.
Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.
--Sir J.
Child.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wane \Wane\, n. (Forestry)
The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board
sawed from a log
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wane
n : a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
[syn: {ebb}, {ebbing}]
v 1: grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: {decline},
{go down}]
2: become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned" [ant: {wax}]
3: decrease in phase; "the moon is waning" [ant: {wax}]
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