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5 definitions found 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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