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waning moon

n. The moon when it appears smaller each night as it progresses from a full moon to a new moon.

Usage examples of "waning moon".

As was the custom, they sat in silence for a while, watching the waning moon climb the canopy of stars.

He moved to the hatch, looked out on a scene that was made even more horrific by the light of the waning moon.

All the while he kept her blood burning through her veins, until her skin felt hot to the touch and she seemed to glow in the shadow light of the waning moon.

I was lying with my back to the east window overlooking the bog, where the waning moon would rise, and therefore expected to see light cast on the opposite wall before me.

One night, under a waning moon, Mae had pierced one of Achille’.

A waning moon lay near the surrounding hills, casting enough light to give shape to the buildings now that her eyes were adapting, and enabling the side of her vision to pick out the white stones that edged the walkways.

Death waited for her there, but she also felt the summons behind some bushes she glimpsed in a moment when the waning moon freed itself from its veil of clouds.

There were many clear stars, hut the fast-waning moon would not be seen till late.

If you wanted a banishing spell for shedding excess weight, you could use the last days of the waning moon cycle when it is in the sky during the morning before it sets.

Forms strangely robed, but at once noble and familiar, walked abroad and under the horned waning moon men talked wisdom in a tongue which I understood, though it was unlike any language which I had ever known.

There be a waning moon to light your road this night, and you should be halfway to the Isle by morning.

Jt was a perilous journey they made by the light of the waning moon, stumbling and skidding over frozen, frost-rimed ground.

After a while the waning moon rose to wash the sky with silver light.