| Avoider | 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 ] |
| Voider | 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 ] |
