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oss or suffering. Condemned to sacrifice his childish years To babbling ignorance, and to empty fears. Prior. The Baronet had sacrificed a large sum . . . for the sake of . . . making this boy his heir. G. Eliot.

To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry.

if you draw them [seedling] only for the thinning of your seminary, prick them into some empty beds. Evelyn.

r leg or arm, or to something else, by a chain or a strap; a gyve; a fetter. His shackles empty left; himself escaped clean. Spenser.

e, a secluded retreat. Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there Weep our sad bosoms empty. Shak.

Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.

To take the husks or pods off from; to shell; to empty of its contents, as a husk or a pod. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Jamieson. That's a shealed peascod. Shak.

Noise without signification; empty noise; noise and nothing else. Sense and not sound . . . must be the principle. Locke. Sound boarding, boards for holding pugging, placed in partitions of under floors in order to deaden sounds. -- Sound bow, in a series of transverse sections of a bell, that segment against which th…

To pour out; to empty; to tap and begin drawing from; as, to start a water cask.

at once. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Chaucer. -- Strike of sugar. (Sugar Making) (a) The act of emptying the teache, or last boiler, in which the cane juice is exposed to heat, into the coolers. (b) The quantity of the sirup thus emptied at once.

raw into the mouth; to imbibe; to absorb. -- To suck out, to draw out with the mouth; to empty by suction. -- To suck up, to draw into the mouth; to draw up by suction absorption.

beans or pease. [Prov. Eng.] Swad, in the north, is a peascod shell -- thence used for an empty, shallow-headed fellow. Blount.

To seize, pull, and tear prey, as a hawk does. [Obs.] Even as an empty eagle, sharp by fast, Tires with her beak on feathers, flesh, and bone. Shak. Ye dregs of baseness, vultures among men, That tire upon the hearts of generous spirits. B. Jonson.

Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot.

Empty. [Obs. or Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Wyclif.

To allure; to tole. [Obs.] With empty hands men may no hawkes tull. Chaucer.

Empty magnificence or pompousness; inflation; bombast; turgidity. Johnson.

To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse.

To cause to be no longer a vessel; to empty. [Obs.] Ford.

Empty space; vacuity; vacuum. How is't with you, That you do bend your eye on vacancy Shak.