Wane , n. (Forestry) The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log.
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.
Wane , v. t. To cause to decrease. [Obs.]
B.
Jonson.
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.
Hear it pronounced