| 单词 | in the wane |
| 释义 | > as lemmasin (the, her, its) wane a. The waning, or gradual decrease of the visible illuminated area on the moon. Now rare except in phrases, on, upon the wane, in (the, her, its) wane. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [phrase] > falling off on, upon the wane1548 on the decline1892 the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > moon > phase > [noun] > waning moon > action of olda1225 wane1548 decrement1610 decrease1626 waddle1678 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) at Seneo Luna senescens, the moone whan it is in the wane. 1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. v. sig. D.vv The decreasyng or wane of the Moone. 1595 G. Markham Most Honorable Trag. Sir R. Grinuile sig. E6v The siluer Moone,..That with the floods fills vp her horned head, And by her waine the wayning ebbs doth keepe. 1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto Satyres iii. 41 They easly migh espie..How she [sc. the moon] grew in the full, how in the waine. 1613 T. Heywood Brazen Age ii. ii. E 4 When the Moone, by which the Seas are gouern'd, Retir'd his waters by her powerfull wane. 1720 J. Swift Progr. Beauty in Poems 72 Each Night, a Bit drops off her Face, When Mortals say she's in her Wane. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 352 When the pale Empress of yon' starry train In the next month renews her faded wane. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 11 She, like a moon in wane, Faded before him. 1838 W. Wordsworth 'Tis He in Sonn. 8 Yon Moon Doubly depressed, setting, and in her wane. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman vii. 107 The old moon began to sink, (Long, like her, upon the wane). in the wane c. The period characterized by the waning of the moon, esp. regarded as a favourable, or unfavourable, time for various (usually agricultural) operations. Usually in in (at, etc.) the wane of the moon, rarely unqualified, in the wane. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a month or calendar month > [noun] > lunar month > periods within or phases of the moon full moonOE new moonOE waningc1000 new of the moona1398 quarter?a1425 plenilune?a1475 neomeniaa1535 lunationc1549 interlune1561 wane1563 neomeny1569 dark of the moon1591 month of apparition1594 dark moon1615 plenilunium1615 moon1709 interlunation1813 quartering1880 1563 T. Hill Arte Gardening (1593) 101 And certaine will, that the root be digged vp in the waine of the Moone, she then being vnder the earth. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 60v Yet there are that holde opinion, that yf you sowe them in the wane, they wyll be the smaller. 1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 37 Sowe peason and beanes, in the wane of the Moone. 1631 D. Widdowes tr. W. A. Scribonius Nat. Philos. (new ed.) 13 In part before & after the 8 day, called the encrease and the waine of the Moone. 1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 4 Seed sown at the wain of the Moon, grows either not at all, or to no purpose. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. i. ii. 14 To cut Hair..in the Wane, causeth baldness. 1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 445 As for Garden-Beans, they are usually set betwixt November and February, at the Wain of the Moon. 1866 A. Steinmetz Weathercasts 41 In Suffolk it is considered unlucky to kill a pig in the wane of the moon. < as lemmas |
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