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To make void; to render invalid; to deprive of legal force or efficacy. Such correspondence would at once nullify the conditions of the probationary system. I. Taylor.

To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade. The French government has parried the payment of our claims. E. Everett.

Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.

A land surface reduced by erosion to the general condition of a plain, but not wholly devoid of hills; a base-level plain.

wo kinds of radical leaves, some oblanceolate and entire, others transformed into little ovoid pitchers, longitudinally triple-winged and ciliated, the mouth covered with a lid shaped like a cockleshell. -- California pitcher plant, the Darlingtonia California. See Darlingtonia. -- Pitcher plant, any plant with the w…

Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.

A translation or a key used to avoid study in getting lessons; a crib. [College Cant]

or, or vulgar people; hence, cheapness; inferiority; vulgarity. This gallant laboring to avoid popularity falls into a habit of affectation. B. Jonson.

a contract of marriage which, according to the ancient law, rendered void a subsequent marriage solemnized in violation of it. Abbott.

e. What rests but that the mortal sentence pass, . . . Which he presumes already vain and void, Because not yet inflicted Milton.

A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

or denial of some fact, protesting that it does or does not exist, and at the same time avoiding a direct affirmation or denial.

The primary growth from the spore of a moss, usually consisting of branching confervoid filaments, on any part of which stem and leaf buds may be developed.

r; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily; arrogantly; boastfully. Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.

To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.

Calmly, without agitation or violent emotion; patiently; as, to submit quietly to unavoidable evils.

Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.

nother body; as, a rebounding echo. Bodies which are absolutely hard, or so soft as to be void of elasticity, will not rebound from one another. Sir I. Newton.

to retract; to recall. How soon . . . ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void! Milton.