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To empty. [Obs.] Chaucer.

of Empty.

The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

To sketch; to delineate. [R.] There are many empty terms to be found in some learned writes, to which they had recourse to etch out their system. Locke.

To empty. [Obs.] Harvey.

Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic. -- n. (Med.)

To make empty; to empty out; to remove the contents of; as, to evacuate a vessel or dish.

The act of emptying, clearing of the contents, or discharging. Specifically:

To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury.

The act of draining out or draining off; the act of emptying completely of the contents.

To make empty; to render of no effect; to humble. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.

n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. [Obs.] Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.

Empty; frivolous. [A Shakespearean word only once used.] Such exsufflicate and blown surmises. Shak. (Oth. iii. 3, 182).

To find a final outlet; to discharge its waters; to empty; -- with into; as, the river Rhone falls into the Mediterranean.

A bully; a hector; a swaggerer; an empty boaster. [R.] Dryden.

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state." Pope.

That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc.

In a flashy manner; with empty show.

Pretentious without substance or reality; puffy; empty; vain; as, a flatulent vanity. He is too flatulent sometimes, and sometimes too dry. Dryden.

Speaking fluently and confidently, without knowledge or consideration; empty; trifling; inconsederate; pert; petulant. "Flippant epilogous." Thomson. To put flippant scorn to the blush. I. Taylor. A sort of flippant, vain discourse. Burke.