Definition of empty

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Empty (n.) An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; -- used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, special rates for empties..

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Cant :: Cant (n.) The use of religious phraseology without understanding or sincerity; empty, solemn speech, implying what is not felt; hypocrisy..
Emptier :: Emptier (compar.) of Empty.
Empty :: Empty (superl.) Unable to satisfy; unsatisfactory; hollow; vain; -- said of pleasure, the world, etc..
Vanity :: Vanity (n.) An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.
Empty :: Empty (v. i.) To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean..
Exhaust :: Exhaust (v. t.) To empty by drawing or letting out the contents; as, to exhaust a well, or a treasury..
Overempty :: Overempty (v. t.) To make too empty; to exhaust.
Vacant :: Vacant (a.) Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind..
Braggadocio :: Braggadocio (n.) Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.
Exsufflicate :: Exsufflicate (a.) Empty; frivolous.
Filling :: Filling (n.) That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc..
Scoop :: Scoop (n.) To empty by lading; as, to scoop a well dry..
Inane :: Inane (a.) Without contents; empty; void of sense or intelligence; purposeless; pointless; characterless; useless.
Vacuation :: Vacuation (n.) The act of emptying; evacuation.
Deplete :: Deplete (a.) To empty or unload, as the vessels of human system, by bloodletting or by medicine..
Unline :: Unline (v. t.) To take the lining out of; hence, to empty; as, to unline one's purse..
Penstock :: Penstock (n.) A close conduit or pipe for conducting water, as, to a water wheel, or for emptying a pond, or for domestic uses..
Bare :: Bare (a.) Destitute; indigent; empty; unfurnished or scantily furnished; -- used with of (rarely with in) before the thing wanting or taken away; as, a room bare of furniture..
Shallow-brained :: Shallow-brained (a.) Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed.
Vacancy :: Vacancy (n.) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
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