Wane

1. n. An inequality in a board.
2. v. i. To be diminished; to decrease; — contrasted with wax, and especially applied to the illuminated part of the moon.
3. v. i. To decline; to fail; to sink.
4. v. t. To cause to decrease.
5. n. The decrease of the illuminated part of the moon to the eye of a spectator.
6. n. Decline; failure; diminution; decrease; declension.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.