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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Free; clear; devoid; -- often with <i>of</i>.</def> "That fair female troop . . . <i>empty</i> of all good."

<i>Milton.</i>

<blockquote>I shall find you <b>empty</b> of that fault. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Having nothing to carry; unburdened.</def> "An <i>empty</i> messenger."

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>When ye go ye shall not go <b>empty</b>. <i>Ex. iii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Destitute of effect, sincerity, or sense; -- said of language; <as>as, <ex>empty</ex> words, or threats</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Words are but <b>empty</b> thanks. <i>Cibber.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc.</def>

<blockquote>Pleas'd in the silent shade with <b>empty</b> praise. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Producing nothing; unfruitful; -- said of a plant or tree; <as>as, an <ex>empty</ex> vine</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Seven <b>empty</b> ears blasted with the east wind. <i>Gen. xli. 27.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Destitute of, or lacking, sense, knowledge, or courtesy; <as>as, <ex>empty</ex> brains; an <ex>empty</ex> coxcomb.</as></def>

<blockquote>That in civility thou seem'st so <b>empty</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Destitute of reality, or real existence; unsubstantial; <as>as, <ex>empty</ex> dreams</as>.</def>

<note>&hand; <i>Empty</i> is used as the first element in a compound; as, <i>empty</i>-handed, having nothing in the hands, destitute; <i>empty</i>-headed, having few ideas; <i>empty</i>-hearted, destitute of feeling.</note>

<syn>Syn. -- See <er>Vacant</er>.</syn>

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<hw>Emp"ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Empties</plw> <tt>(<?/)</tt>.</plu> <def>An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; <as>as, "special rates for <ex>empties</ex></as>."</def>

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<hw>Emp"ty</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Emptied</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Emptying</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; <as>as, to <ex>empty</ex> a vessel; to <ex>empty</ex> a well or a cistern.</as></def>

<blockquote>The clouds . . . <b>empty</b> themselves upon the earth. <i>Eccl. xi. 3.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Emp"ty</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To discharge itself; <as>as, a river <ex>empties</ex> into the ocean</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To become empty.</def> "The chapel <i>empties</i>."

<i>B. Jonson.</i>