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What does "wane" mean?

Wane: 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.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To cause to decrease. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
  2. 3.The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
  3. 4.Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension. An age in which the church is in its wane. South. Though the year be on the wane. Keble.
  4. 5.An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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