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Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.

Show without substance; empty, outside appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality; formality; as, a matter of mere form. Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the form of justice. Shak.

Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric without thought. Johnson. It was a long speech, but all froth. L'Estrange.

Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson.

Filled up, having within its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

Boasting; insincere or empty talk. [Slang]

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8..

y; to make a contract by bottomry. See Hypothecation, Bottomry. He had found the treasury empty and the pay of the navy in arrear. He had no power to hypothecate any part of the public revenue. Those who lent him money lent it on no security but his bare word. Macaulay.

In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.

Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless. "Vague and inane instincts." I. Taylor. -- In*ane"ly, adv.

Lacking matter; empty; void of substance.

f the small intestine, between the duodenum and ileum; -- so called because usually found empty after death.

An inclined road in a coal mine, on which loaded cars descend by gravity, drawing up empty ones. Knight.

with fasting grown. Swift. Who would not choose . . . to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain Barrow.

Empty; destitute; wanting; as:

Empty. [Obs.] See Lere, a.

A silly person. [Obs.] A liripoop, vel lerripoop, a silly, empty creature; an old dotard. Milles. MS. Devon Gloss.

ngs; solitary. Thus vanish scepters, coronets, and balls, And leave you on lone woods, or empty walls. Pope.

ive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all. Sir I. Newton.

flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying. -- W, a gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.