‖n. [ F. abattre to beat down + voix voice. ] The sounding-board over a pulpit or rostrum. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., a watering place. ] (Masonry) The joint or interstice between stones, to be filled with mortar. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., lit., to the seeing again. ] Good-by until we meet again. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Avoided; p. pr. & vb. n. Avoiding. ] [ OF. esvuidier, es (L. ex) + vuidier, voidier, to empty. See Void, a. ] 1. To empty. [ Obs. ] Wyclif. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To emit or throw out; to void; as, to avoid excretions. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To quit or evacuate; to withdraw from. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided
the room. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make void; to annul or vacate; to refute. [ 1913 Webster ]

How can these grants of the king's be avoided? Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To keep away from; to keep clear of; to endeavor no to meet; to shun; to abstain from; as, to avoid the company of gamesters. [ 1913 Webster ]

What need a man forestall his date of grief.
And run to meet what he would most avoid ? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

He carefully avoided every act which could goad them into open hostility. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To get rid of. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. (Pleading) To defeat or evade; to invalidate. Thus, in a replication, the plaintiff may deny the defendant's plea, or confess it, and avoid it by stating new matter. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To escape; elude; evade; eschew. -- To Avoid, Shun. Avoid in its commonest sense means, to keep clear of, an extension of the meaning, to withdraw one's self from. It denotes care taken not to come near or in contact; as, to avoid certain persons or places. Shun is a stronger term, implying more prominently the idea of intention. The words may, however, in many cases be interchanged. [ 1913 Webster ]

No man can pray from his heart to be kept from temptation, if the take no care of himself to avoid it. Mason. [ 1913 Webster ]

So Chanticleer, who never saw a fox,
Yet shunned him as a sailor shuns the rocks. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To retire; to withdraw. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

David avoided out of his presence. 1 Sam. xviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) To become void or vacant. [ Obs. ] Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being vacated; liable to be annulled or made invalid; voidable. [ 1913 Webster ]

The charters were not avoidable for the king's nonage. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being avoided, shunned, or escaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of annulling; annulment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of becoming vacant, 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wolsey, . . . on every avoidance of St. Peter's chair, was sitting down therein, when suddenly some one or other clapped in before him. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A dismissing or a quitting; removal; withdrawal. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of avoiding or shunning; keeping clear of. “The avoidance of pain.” Beattie. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The courts by which anything is carried off. [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoidances and drainings of water. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. & a. [ OE. aver de peis, goods of weight, where peis is fr. OF. peis weight, F. poids, L. pensum. See Aver, n., and Poise, n. ] 1. Goods sold by weight. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Avoirdupois weight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Weight; heaviness; as, a woman of much avoirdupois. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Avoirdupois weight, a system of weights by which coarser commodities are weighed, such as hay, grain, butter, sugar, tea. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The standard Avoirdupois pound of the United States is equivalent to the weight of 27.7015 cubic inches of distilled water at 62° Fahrenheit, the barometer being at 30 inches, and the water weighed in the air with brass weights. In this system of weights 16 drams make 1 ounce, 16 ounces 1 pound, 25 pounds 1 quarter, 4 quarters 1 hundred weight, and 20 hundred weight 1 ton. The above pound contains 7, 000 grains, or 453.54 grams, so that 1 pound avoirdupois is equivalent to 1 31-144 pounds troy. (See Troy weight.) Formerly, a hundred weight was reckoned at 112 pounds, the ton being 2, 240 pounds (sometimes called a long ton). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Conferva + -oid. ] Like, or related to, the confervae. Loudon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OE. devoiden to leave, OF. desvuidier, desvoidier, to empty out. See Void. ] To empty out; to remove. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Devoid, v. t. ] 1. Void; empty; vacant. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Destitute; not in possession; -- with of; as, devoid of sense; devoid of pity or of pride. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. L. debere to owe. See Due. ] Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies. “Do now your devoid, young knights!” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. envois things sent, goods forwarded, pl. of envoi a sending or things sent, fr. envoyer to send; cf. F. lettre d'envoi letter of advice of goods forwarded. See Envoy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Com.) A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large invoice of goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Invoiced p. pr. & vb. n. Invoicing ] To make a written list or account of, as goods to be sent to a consignee; to insert in a priced list; to write or enter in an invoice. [ 1913 Webster ]

Goods, wares, and merchandise imported from Norway, and invoiced in the current dollar of Norway. Madison. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ or /mhw>, n. [ F. le the + envoi a sending. See Envoy. ] 1. One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A conclusion; a result. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a loud voice; speaking with a loud voice; noisy; clamorous. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Naevus + -oid. ] Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To exceed in noise. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A solid resembling an egg in shape. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Ovum + -oid: cf. F. ovoïde. ] Resembling an egg in shape; egg-shaped; ovate; as, an ovoidal apple.
Syn. -- oviform. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. réservoir, fr. LL. reservatorium. See Reservatory. ] 1. A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) A small intercellular space, often containing resin, essential oil, or some other secreted matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A large quantity of infectious microorganisms resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans. [ PJC ]

3. (Med.) a large quantity of infectious microorganisms or parasites resident in animals other than man, potentially capable of being transmitted to humans; especially, such organisms in animals where they do little or no harm to the host. [ PJC ]

4. A large supply or stock of anything which may be rapidly put to use; a reserve. [ PJC ]

Receiving reservoir (Water Works), a principal reservoir into which an aqueduct or rising main delivers water, and from which a distributing reservoir draws its supply. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To refurnish with a voice; to refit, as an organ pipe, so as to restore its tone. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Cf. Travail. ] 1. A primitive vehicle, common among the North American Indians, usually two trailing poles serving as shafts and bearing a platform or net for a load.

On the plains they will have horses dragging travoises; dogs with travoises, women and children loaded with impediments. Julian Ralph. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A logging sled. [ Northern U. S. & Canada ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Not avoidable; incapable of being shunned or prevented; inevitable; necessary; as, unavoidable troubles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth, or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as to require detachment before the child can be born. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Un`a*void"a*ble*ness, n. -- Un`a*void"a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unavoidable; inevitable. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

See obnoxious.
See observable.
See observant.
See obstructive.
See obvious.
See official.
See officious.
See oppressive.
See ordinary.
See ordinate.
See original.
See ornamental.
See orthodox.
See ostentatious.
See pacifiable.
See pacific.
See painful.
See palatable.
See parallelable.
See pardonable.
See partable.
See participant.
See passionate.
See pastoral.
See pathetic.
See patriotic.
See peaceable.
See peaceful.
See pedantic.
See perceivable.
See perceptible.
See perilous.
See permanent.
See personable.
See perspirable.
See persuadable.
See persuasive.
See philanthropic.
See philosophic.
See philosophical.
See physical.
See picturesque.
See pierceable.
See pitiful.
See plain.
See plausible.
See plausive.
See pleadable.
See pleasurable.
See pliable.
See pliant.
See plumb.
See poetic.
See poetical.
See political.
See popular.
See populous.
See portable.
See potable.
See precarious.
See precise.
See pregnant.
See prejudicate.
See prelatical.
See premeditable.
See presentable.
See preservable.
See presumptuous.
See pretentious.
See pretty.
See prevalent.
See priestly.
See primitive.
See princely.
See procurable.
See producible.
See productive.
See professional.
See profitable.
See prolific.
See pronounceable.
See prophetic.
See propitious.
See proportionable.
See proportionate.
See prosperous.
See provable.
See punctilious.
See punctual.
See punishable.
See pure.
See qualifiable.
See quenchable.
See quiet.
See rational.
See readable.
See reasonable.
See recallable.
See reclaimable.
See recognizable.
See reconcilable.
See recoverable.
See recumbent.
See reformable.
See refusable.
See regardable.
See regardant.
See relative.
See relievable.
See reluctant.
See remarkable.
See remediable.
See rememberable.
See remorseful.
See removable.
See remunerative.
See repairable.
See repealable.
See repentant.
See reprovable.
See repugnant.
See requisite.
See requitable.
See resolvable.
See respectable.
See restful.
See retentive.
See returnable.
See revengeful.
See ridable.
See ridiculous.
See rightful.
See romantic.
See rough.
See royal.
See ruinable.
See ruly.
See sacrificial.
See safe.
See sage.
See sailable.
See salable.
See sane.
See sanguine.
See sanitary.
See satisfactory.
See satisfiable.
See saturable.
See savory.
See scalable.
See scaly.
See scholarly.
See scholastic.
See scientific.
See scornful.
See scriptural.
See sculptural.
See seaworthy.
See sectarian.
See secular.
See sedentary.
See selfish.
See sentient.
See sentimental.
See serviceable.
See severe.
See shamefaced.
See shamefast.
See shapely.
See shy.
See sick.
See sicker.
See sightly.
See simple.
See sinewy.
See sizable.
See sleek.
See slumberous.
See sly.
See smooth.
See smotherable.
See smutty.
See sober.
See sociable.
See social.
See solemn.
See soliciutous.
See solvable.
See speakable.
See speedy.
See spiritual.
See spontaneous.
See sportful.
See sportsmanlike.
See statutable.
See steadfast.
See steady.
See stormy.
See stout.
See strong.
See subduable.
See subject.
See submissive.
See subordinate.
See substantial.
See successive.
See succorable.
See suggestive.
See suitable.
See sunny.
See superfluous.
See supple.
See sure.
See surpassable.
See susceptible.
See suspect.
See suspectable.
See suspicious.
See sustainable.
See sweet.
See syllogistical.
See symbolic.
See sympathetic.
See systematic.
See tamable.
See tame.
See teachable.
See technical.
See tellable.
See tenable.
See tender.
See terrestrial.
See terrific.
See thankful.
See theological.
See thinkable.
See thirsty.
See thorny.
See thoughtful.
See tidy.
See tillable.
See toothsome.
See touchable.
See traceable.
See tractable.
See tragic.
See tranquil.
See transferable.
See translatable.
See transmutable.
See transparent.
See transpassable.
See traversable.
See tremulous.
See trimphant.
See trustworthy.
See trusty.
See tumultous.
See tunable.
See uniform.
See usable.
See useful.
See vanquishable.
See variant.
See venerable.
See venomous.
See veracious.
See verdant.
See veritable.
See vigilant.
See vigorous.
See virtuous.
See vital.
See vitrifiable.
See vocal.
See voidable.
See voluptuous.
See voyageable.
See vulgar.
See walkable.
See warlike.
See watchful.
See watery.
See wealthy.
See wearable.
See weary.
See welcome.
See wet.
See wholesome.
See wieldsome.
See willful.
See wily.
See witty.
See womanly.
See workable.
See workmanlike.
See worldly.
See worshipful.
See wrathful.
See writable.
See zealous.
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n. [ OE. vois, voys, OF. vois, voiz, F. voix, L. vox, vocis, akin to Gr. &unr_; a word, &unr_; a voice, Skr. vac to say, to speak, G. erwähnen to mention. Cf. Advocate, Advowson, Avouch, Convoke, Epic, Vocal, Vouch, Vowel. ] 1. Sound uttered by the mouth, especially that uttered by human beings in speech or song; sound thus uttered considered as possessing some special quality or character; as, the human voice; a pleasant voice; a low voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

He with a manly voice saith his message. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy voice is music. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Join thy voice unto the angel choir. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Sound of the kind or quality heard in speech or song in the consonants b, v, d, etc., and in the vowels; sonant, or intonated, utterance; tone; -- distinguished from mere breath sound as heard in f, s, sh, etc., and also whisper. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Voice, in this sense, is produced by vibration of the so-called vocal cords in the larynx (see Illust. of Larynx) which act upon the air, not in the manner of the strings of a stringed instrument, but as a pair of membranous tongues, or reeds, which, being continually forced apart by the outgoing current of breath, and continually brought together again by their own elasticity and muscular tension, break the breath current into a series of puffs, or pulses, sufficiently rapid to cause the sensation of tone. The power, or loudness, of such a tone depends on the force of the separate pulses, and this is determined by the pressure of the expired air, together with the resistance on the part of the vocal cords which is continually overcome. Its pitch depends on the number of aerial pulses within a given time, that is, on the rapidity of their succession. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 5, 146, 155. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The tone or sound emitted by anything. [ 1913 Webster ]

After the fire a still small voice. 1 Kings xix. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

Canst thou thunder with a voice like him? Job xl. 9. [ 1913 Webster ]

The floods have lifted up their voice. Ps. xciii. 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

O Marcus, I am warm'd; my heart
Leaps at the trumpet's voice. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The faculty or power of utterance; as, to cultivate the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Language; words; speech; expression; signification of feeling or opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you. Gal. iv. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

My voice is in my sword. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let us call on God in the voice of his church. Bp. Fell. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Opinion or choice expressed; judgment; a vote. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sic. How now, my masters! have you chose this man?
1 Cit. He has our voices, sir. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some laws ordain, and some attend the choice
Of holy senates, and elect by voice. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language. [ 1913 Webster ]

So shall ye perish; because ye would not be obedient unto the voice of the Lord your God. Deut. viii. 20. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. One who speaks; a speaker. “A potent voice of Parliament.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Gram.) A particular mode of inflecting or conjugating verbs, or a particular form of a verb, by means of which is indicated the relation of the subject of the verb to the action which the verb expresses. [ 1913 Webster ]

Active voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as the agent or doer of the action expressed by it. --
Chest voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of a medium or low pitch and of a sonorous quality ascribed to resonance in the chest, or thorax; voice of the thick register. It is produced by vibration of the vocal cords through their entire width and thickness, and with convex surfaces presented to each other. --
Head voice (Phon.), a kind of voice of high pitch and of a thin quality ascribed to resonance in the head; voice of the thin register; falsetto. In producing it, the vibration of the cords is limited to their thin edges in the upper part, which are then presented to each other. --
Middle voice (Gram.), that form of the verb by which its subject is represented as both the agent, or doer, and the object of the action, that is, as performing some act to or upon himself, or for his own advantage. --
Passive voice. (Gram.) See under Passive, a. --
Voice glide (Pron.), the brief and obscure neutral vowel sound that sometimes occurs between two consonants in an unaccented syllable (represented by the apostrophe), as in able See Glide, n., 2. --
Voice stop. See Voiced stop, under Voiced, a. --
With one voice, unanimously. “All with one voice . . . cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.” Acts xix. 34. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Voiced p. pr. & vb. n. Voicing ] 1. To give utterance or expression to; to utter; to publish; to announce; to divulge; as, to voice the sentiments of the nation. “Rather assume thy right in silence and . . . then voice it with claims and challenges.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was voiced that the king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) To utter with sonant or vocal tone; to pronounce with a narrowed glottis and rapid vibrations of the vocal cords; to speak above a whisper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To vote; to elect; to appoint. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To clamor; to cry out. [ Obs. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Furnished with a voice; expressed by the voice. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Uttered with voice; pronounced with vibrations of the vocal cords; sonant; -- said of a sound uttered with the glottis narrowed. [ 1913 Webster ]

Voiced stop,
Voice stop (Phon.), a stopped consonant made with tone from the larynx while the mouth organs are closed at some point; a sonant mute, as b, d, g hard. [ 1913 Webster ]

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a. Having a voice or vocal quality; having a loud voice or many voices; vocal; sounding. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey
Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having no voice, utterance, or vote; silent; mute; dumb. [ 1913 Webster ]

I live and die unheard,
With a most voiceless thought, sheathing it as a sword. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Phon.) Not sounded with voice; as, a voiceless consonant; surd. [ 1913 Webster ]

Voiceless stop (Phon.), a consonant made with no audible sound except in the transition to or from another sound; a surd mute, as p, t, k. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Voice"less*ly, adv. -- Voice"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. voide, OF. voit, voide, vuit, vuide, F. vide, fr. (assumed) LL. vocitus, fr. L. vocare, an old form of vacare to be empty, or a kindred word. Cf. Vacant, Avoid. ] 1. Containing nothing; empty; vacant; not occupied; not filled. [ 1913 Webster ]

The earth was without form, and void. Gen. i. 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll get me to a place more void. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I 'll chain him in my study, that, at void hours,
I may run over the story of his country. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having no incumbent; unoccupied; -- said of offices and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

Divers great offices that had been long void. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Being without; destitute; free; wanting; devoid; as, void of learning, or of common use. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

A conscience void of offense toward God. Acts xxiv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xi. 12. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Not producing any effect; ineffectual; vain. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ My word ] shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Isa. lv. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will make void the counsel of Judah. Jer. xix. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Containing no immaterial quality; destitute of mind or soul. “Idol, void and vain.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. (Law) Of no legal force or effect, incapable of confirmation or ratification; null. Cf. Voidable, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Void space (Physics), a vacuum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Empty; vacant; devoid; wanting; unfurnished; unsupplied; unoccupied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An empty space; a vacuum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defense,
And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Voided; p. pr. & vb. n. Voiding. ] [ OF. voidier, vuidier. See Void, a. ] 1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table. [ 1913 Webster ]

Void anon her place. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

If they will fight with us, bid them come down,
Or void the field. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge; as, to void excrements. [ 1913 Webster ]

A watchful application of mind in voiding prejudices. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

With shovel, like a fury, voided out
The earth and scattered bones. J. Webster. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to vacate; to annul; to nullify. [ 1913 Webster ]

After they had voided the obligation of the oath he had taken. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was become a practice . . . to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Capable of being voided, or evacuated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the metropolitan . . . grants letters of administration, such administration is not, but voidable by sentence. Ayliffe. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A voidable contract may be ratified and confirmed; to render it null and of no effect, it must be avoided; a void contract can not be ratified. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of voiding, emptying, ejecting, or evacuating. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) A ejection from a benefice. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice which is without an incumbent. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Evasion; subterfuge. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Emptied; evacuated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Annulled; invalidated. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Her.) Having the inner part cut away, or left vacant, a narrow border being left at the sides, the tincture of the field being seen in the vacant space; -- said of a charge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, voids, &unr_;mpties, vacates, or annuls. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tray, or basket, formerly used to receive or convey that which is voided or cleared away from a given place; especially, one for carrying off the remains of a meal, as fragments of food; sometimes, a basket for containing household articles, as clothes, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Piers Plowman laid the cloth, and Simplicity brought in the voider. Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cloth whereon the earl dined was taken away, and the voider, wherein the plate was usually put, was set upon the cupboard's head. Hist. of Richard Hainam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A servant whose business is to void, or clear away, a table after a meal. [ R. ] Decker. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Her.) One of the ordinaries, much like the flanch, but less rounded and therefore smaller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, voids. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated; a remnant; a fragment. [ R. ] Rowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

Voiding knife, a knife used for gathering up fragments of food to put them into a voider. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Receiving what is ejected or voided. “How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood?” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being void; emptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ OF., to say the truth, fr. L. verus true + dicere to say. ] (Law) An oath administered to a witness, usually before being sworn in chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers in reference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to give evidence. Greenleaf. Ld. Abinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. L. vectura a carrying, conveying. Cf. Vettura. ] A carriage. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Waywode. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]