Wane : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wane	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for Wane
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
wane n a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number) Synonym(s): ebb, ebbing, wane v grow smaller; "Interest in the project waned" [syn: decline, go down, wane] become smaller; "Interest in his novels waned" Antonym(s): climb, mount, rise, wax decrease in phase; "the moon is waning" Antonym(s): full, wax
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\, v. t. To cause to decrease. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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.