waned, ppl. a.
(weɪnd)
[f. wane v. + -ed1.]
That has waned; diminished, decreased.
| 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 4 Once more I shall enter⁓change My wained state, for Henries Regall Crowne. 1640 J. Gower Ovid's Festiv. ii. 35 Ten times the Moon her waned light did gather. 1810 Scott Lady of L. ii. xxiii, Not so proud Was I of all that marshall'd crowd, Though the waned crescent own'd my might. 1816 Coleridge Lay Serm. p. xxii, Like an aged mourner..who is watching the wained moon and sorroweth not. 1818 Keats Endym. ii. 482 When our love-sick queen did weep Over his waned corse. |