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taining nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. The earth was without form, and void. Gen. i. 2. I 'll get me to a place more void. Shak. I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. Massinger.

Capable of being voided, or evacuated.

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

Emptied; evacuated.

One who, or that which, voids,

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.

The quality or state of being void;

To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale.

, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller.

One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.

Unavoidable; inevitable.

Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon.

Void; empty; vacant. [Obs.] Spenser.

Resembling a nævus or nævi; as, nævoid elephantiasis. Dunglison.

A solid resembling an egg in shape.

Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.

Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles.

Not avoided or shunned. Shak.

An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter A merry heart goes all the day, Your sad tires in a mile-a. Shak.