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To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." Harvey.

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

To whet or sharpen. [Obs.] B. Jonson. -- Ex*ac`u*a"tion, n. [Obs.]

To make void, or empty. [R.]

To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [Obs.] Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. Bacon.

eration of the colon and rectum, and characterized by griping pains, constant desire to evacuate the bowels, and the discharge of mucus and blood.

That which is evacuated or discharged; especially, a discharge by stool or other natural means. Quincy.

Serving of tending to evacuate; cathartic; purgative.

One who evacuates; a nullifier. "Evacuators of the law." Hammond.

To emit from the bowels; to evacuate.

To be evacuated or excreted, or to exude, through the pores of the skin; as, a fluid perspires.

That which purges; especially, a medicine that evacuates the intestines; a cathartic. Arbuthnot.

To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. Barrow. With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and scattered bones. J. Webster.

Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

Emptied; evacuated.

That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [R.] Rowe. Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider.