Dictionary entry

Wane (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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. Halliwell.