Definitions for: Wane


[n] a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
[v] grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned"
[v] decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"
[v] become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned"



Webster (1913) Definition: Wane, n. (Forestry)
The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board
sawed from a log.


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.


Wane, v. t.
To cause to decrease. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.


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.

Synonyms: decline, ebb, ebbing, go down

Antonyms: climb, full, mount, rise, wax

See Also: decline, decrease, diminish, diminution, dip, drop, fall, lessen, wear on

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