Wane /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Waned; p. pr. & vb. n. Waning

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.

2. To decline; to fail; to sink.

   You saw but sorrow in its waning form.

   Land and trade ever will wax and wane together.

1. To cause to decrease. [Obs.]

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.

   Though the year be on the wane.

3. An inequality in a board. [Prov. Eng.]
4. The natural curvature of a log or of the edge of a board sawed from a log. (Forestry)