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The act of making empty. Shak.

The act of depleting or emptying.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

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

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

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

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

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.

One whose business is emptying privies by night.

A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses.

A large stream of water flowing in a bed or channel and emptying into the ocean, a sea, a lake, or another stream; a stream larger than a rivulet or brook. Transparent and sparkling rivers, from which it is delightful to drink as they flow. Macaulay.

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.

The act of emptying; evacuation. [R.]

The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating.