voice 
Kmnonr will >>,;,-, me the cMiilcnipt <>r iniiMhiHid. 
Shuuld I run "ii tlmx. Ford, KOktn Heart, ill. 2. 
5. Ill fihtitifticK, to utter will] voice m lone or 
soiKtiicy. as distinguished fnnii breath. 
II. t iiili'inix. Tospetik; vote; give opinion. 
I i i-im-nil'iT, ulsii, th:it this plitec (Acts xvi. ] is pretend- 
C'l fur tin- pc.ipli-'.-* |M. \\el- nf t*ii<-i/i;l in councils. 
i/<rr. Tii/tl'tr, l;pi~rnp;icj A^Mited, | 11. 
Voiced (voist), r/. [< /((/(( + -/-.] Furnished 
witli :i voice : usually in composition : us, sweet 
VOii-nl. 
Tliat'sErylh:i:i, 
Or Home angel onic'il like her. 
,svr./. lh;ilu<n<, 'I'ii. s.pliy. (Latham.) 
voiceful (vdis'i'i'il), ii. [< voice + -fill.'] Hav- 
ing a voice; vocal; Bounding. 
The- seniors tl)(!ii did bear 
Tin ric<'fi<l tiri;i!i!s' sreptres, Bat within a sacred sphere, 
On polish'd stones, uml gave by turns tlieir sentence. 
Chapman, Iliad, xviii. 450. 
The swelling of the vtncefnl sen. 
Coleridyr, Fancy in Nubibus. 
voicefulness ( vois'ful-nes), . The property or 
state of being voicoful ; voeality. 
In the wilds of these ialea one drinks In the spirit of 
the sea, and its deep voiceftilnrM nils the air. 
Portfolio, ti. 8., IX. 187. 
voiceless (vois'les), . [< voice + -less.] 1. Hav- 
ing no voice, utterance, or vote; mute; dumb. 
The proctors of the clergy were voiceless assistants. 
Coke. (Latham.) 
Childless and ci-ownless, in her voiceless woe. 
Byron, Cliilde Harold, iv. 79. 
2. In plionetiw, not voiced or sonant; surd. 
voicelessness ( vpis'les-nes), . The state of be- 
ing voiceless ; silence. 
voice-part (vois'piirt), . See part, 5, nn&part- 
irritiiii/. 
voicer ( voi'ser), n. One who voices or regulates 
the tone of organ-pipes. 
voice-thrill (vois'thril), . Same as vocal fremi- 
tus (which see, under vocal). 
voicing (voi'sing),n. [Verbal n. of i'oifp,r.] The 
act, process, or result of regulating the tone of 
organ-pipes, so that they shall sound with the 
proper power, pitch, and quality. Voicing It the 
most delicate and important branch of organ-building, 
since success in it depends ou attention to the minutest 
details. 
void (void), . and . [< ME. void, voyd, voide, 
< OF. coitle, vuide, m. and f., also void, vuid, vuit, 
m., empty, waste, vast, wide, hollow, also de- 
prived, destitute, devoid ; as a noun, a void, 
waste ; F. vide, empty, devoid ; according to the 
usual derivation, < L. viduim, bereft of husband 
or wife, bereft, deprived ; but this derivation is 
difficult phonetically and in view of the existing 
F. veuf, in., veuve, f., widowed, deprived (as a 
noun, a widower, widow), from the same L. vi- 
ilinis. The F. vide for vuide, however, has been 
influenced by association with the L. vidutis. 
Another derivation, < LL. as if "vocitus for *ra- 
citus, akin to vacare, be empty, vacmts, empty, 
vaciVKS, vocivun (see vacuous, vacant), rests on 
assumption. Of. avoid, devoid.] I. a. 1. Empty, 
or not containing matter; vacant; not occu- 
pied; unfilled: as, a void space or place. 
And he that shall a-complysshe that sete must also 
complysshe the ooyde place at the table that loseph made. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 8.), i. 61. 
The earth was without form, and mid [was waste and 
void, R. V.], and darkness was upon the face of the deep. 
Gen. i. i 
I'll get me to a place more void, and there 
Speak to great C'ecsar as he comes along. 
Shak., J. C.. Ii. 4. 37. 
In the void offices around 
Rung not a hoof, nor bayed a hound. 
Scott, Bokeby, ii. 17. 
2. Having no holder or possessor; vacant; 
unoccupied; without incumbent. 
The Bishoprick of Winchester falling will, the king 
sends presently to the Monks of the Cathedral Church to 
elect his Brother Athelmar. Baker, Chronicles, p. 83. 
A plantation should he begun at Agawam (being the best 
place in the land for tillage and cattle), least an enemy, 
finding it voirl, should possess and take it from us. 
Winthrop, Hist. Mew England. 1. 118. 
3f. Not taken up with business; leisure. 
All the void time that is between the hours of work, 
sleep, and meat, that they be suffered to bestow every 
man as he liketh best himself. 
Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 4. 
I chain him in my study, that, at void hours, 
1 may rnn over the story of his country. Massinger. 
4. Being without; devoid; destitute; lacking; 
without; free from: usually with of: as, void 
of learning; void of common sense. 
The moste parte of noble men and gentlemen within 
this Uealme haue bene brought vp ignorantly and voidc of 
good educacfijons. 
Booke of Precedence (E, E. T. 8., extra ser \ i. 10. 
8781 
W miixt IN- r"iil ft-i.m that desperate solicitude. 
ffm in Ki.i.lfnrd Letter- i T , . II. .. 
He (hat is vuid of wisdom despiwth hi* neighlwur. 
1'rov. ii. Ii 
5. Not producing :iny effect ; ineffectual ; use- 
less; vain; superfluous. 
Voide leves puld to be. 
Palladia*, MiiKlNimlrli- IK. K. T. S.X p. ISO. 
\Vyth Uines A unfit morHcln fyll not thy trcnchoiir, my 
friend, full. Babe** Book (E. K. T. .), p. 79. 
Hy word . . . hall not return to me void, but ft shall 
accomplish that which I please. Isa. Iv. 11. 
The game [rucks of Sdlly] Is reckoned In the same 
manner us at mississlpi, and the cant is voitl If the ball 
does not enter any of the holes. 
StruU, Sports and Pastimes, p. 386. 
6. Specifically, in taw, without legal efficacy ; 
incapable of being enforced by law; having no 
legal or binding force; null; not effectual to 
bind parties, or to convey or support a right : 
UN, ii deed not. duly signed and scaled is raid ; 
a promise without consideration is void, in 
strictness the word is appropriate only of that which is 
so utterly without effect that a person may act as if It did 
not exist ; but a thing may he void aa to some persons 
and not as to others. Void is, however, often used in place 
of voidable. Voidable Is appropriate for that which a person 
has the right to make of no effect by application to court 
to have it adjudged ooid, or in some cases by notice or 
declaration, as a conveyance in fraud of creditors which 
is effectual between the parties, hut may l- avoided by a 
creditor, or a contract of an infant, which may be effectual 
until he has disaffirmed it. That which Is void is generally 
held incapable of confirmation; that which is simply void- 
able may he confirmed. 
7t. Devoid of wealth ; poor. 
Vif thow haddyst entred In the path of this lyf a vayde 
wayferlnge man, than woldcst thow synge byforn the thcf. 
Chaucer, Boethlns, II. prose 6. 
TO make void, to render useless or of no effect. 
For If they which are of the law be heirs, faith Is made 
mid, and the promise made of none effect Rom. iv. 14. 
It was thy device 
By this alliance to mate, void my suit 
Shot., 3 Hen. VI., HI. 8. 142. 
Void for uncertainty, said of a legal Instrument the lan- 
guage of which is so vague or ambiguous that it cannot 
take effect Void space, in physio, a vacuum. =8yn. 
1,2, and 4. Devoid, etc. See meant. 6. Invalid. 
II. n. 1. An empty or unoccupied space; a 
vacuum. 
The Void of Ileav'n a glonmy Horror fills. 
Congrevt, Birth of the Muse. 
The illimitable Void. Thornton, Summer, 1. 34. 
I do not like to see anything destroyed, any raid pro- 
duced in society. Burke, Ker. in France. 
What peaceful hours I once enjoyed ! 
How sweet their memory still I 
But they have left an aching void 
The world can never fill. 
Coirper, Oh, for a closer walk with God ! 
2. An opening; a solution of continuity in an 
inclosure of any kind ; a space unfilled or not 
built up, as contrasted with closed or occupied 
areas. 
The clerestory window (of Notre Dame, Parlsl ... al- 
though larger than such openings had been in Roman* 
esque design, . . . nevertheless Is simply an opening in 
a wall, the area of the solid still being greater than that 
of the mid. C. If. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 86. 
3f. The last course or remove ; the dessert. 
There was a void of spice-plates and wine. 
Coronation of A nne Buleyn (Arbor's Eng. Garner, II. 50). 
void (void), c. [< ME. voiden, < OF. voider, 
voidicr, vuidicr, viiider, F. vider = Pr. voiar, 
voyar, vitfiar, voidar = Cat. ritydar, make void ; 
from the adj. Cf. avoid.} I. trans. 1. To make 
or leave vacant ; quit ; vacate ; depart from ; 
leave; hence, to clear; free; empty. 
They voidede the cite of Ravenne by certeyn day as- 
singued. Chaucer, Boethius, i. prose 4. 
Now this feest is done, voyde ye the table. 
Babert Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. 271. 
Good Frederick, sec the rooms be voided straight. 
Marlotce, Faustus, ill. 4. 
If they will fight with us, bid them come down, 
Or void the field. Shak., Hen. V., IT. 7. 62. 
The princes would be private. Void the presence. 
Mansion, The Fawne, ill. 
2. To emit, throw, or send out; empty out; 
specifically, to evacuate from the intestine or 
bladder: as, to roid excrementitious matter. 
The place of the Welles and of the Walles and of many 
other thinges hen zit apertly sene; hut the richesse is 
voydcd dene. MandevOle, Travels, p. 279. 
Whan the water was all voided, the! sangh the two stones 
that were vpon the two dragons. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.X i. 38. 
YOD that did void your rheum upon my beard, 
And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur 
Over your threshold. Shak., M. of V., i 3. 118. 
St. To lay aside; cease to use; divest one's 
self of. 
voider 
He was glad of tin- -..n,,. . A <i i!..li: chere 
Veidet his riser, aiii-ntnl Imn vlimi 
Uatru. I. 7002. 
ills locks, as bliu'ki- :i- pitchy niirlit. 
\V< re In >u nit about and n-/./. ./ (mm I 
r, K. '/.. VI wi ! 
4. To Invalidate; annul; nullify: n nd.-r of no 
validity or effect. 
It was become a practice ... to void the security that 
was at any time given for money so borrowed. C(atvii''ii 
5f. To avoid; shun. 
I voudf eompanye, I fie gladnesM. 
Chaucer, Aneli.la and Arclte, L 296. 
This was the mcane to voyde theyre strove* 
And alle olde gruchchynit, and her liarils to glade. 
Political PoeiM, etc. (ed. Knrnlvall), p. tl. 
6f. To dismiss; send away. 
He leet Myden oat of his Chambre alle maner of men, 
Lordes and other* : for he wolde speke with me In Ton 
seille. Mandemllf, Travels, p. 137. 
Bo when it liked hire to con to rcste, 
And omjded weren they that vmjdni .iiiuhtc. 
Chatuxr, Trullus, II. 911. 
II. iiitrHiw. If. Togo; depart. 
With gretc indygnacyon charged hym shortely without 
dclayc to voutte out of his londe. 
Joseph of Ari,,,athie (K. E. T. .), p. 32. 
Hit vanlst verayly A voyded of iyxt 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), It- 1M7. 
Let all that sweet Is void! In me no mirth may dwell. 
*'. Urerillr (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 298). 
2. (at) To have an evacuation. 
Here, for example, is "the memorable and prodigious 
history of a girl who for many years neither ate nor slept 
nor voided." Pop. Set. Mo., XXXVI. 644. 
(6) To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman, 
Surgery. [Rare.] 3f. To become empty or 
vacant. 
Hit Is wel oure cntcnt whan ne any snc<- he lieneflce voyd- 
eth of oure ylfte yat ye make collacion t<> him y of. 
Uenry V. (Ellls's Hist Letters, I. 71). 
voidable (voi'da-bl), a. [< void + -able.] 1. 
Capable of being voided or evacuated. 2. In 
//', such that some person has a right to have 
it annulled. See votd, v. t., 6. 
Such administration Is not void, but voidable, by sen- 
tence. Aijlife, Parcrgon. 
Voidable contract. See contract. 
voidance ( voi'dans), n. [< ME. voidauncc, < OF. 
voidance, < voider, make void : see void, v.~\ 1. 
The act of voiding or emptying. 
Voydaunce (or voydyngeX Tacado, cvacnacio. 
Prompt. Pan., p. 611. 
2. The act of casting away or getting rid. 
What pains they require in the voidance of fond conceits. 
Barrow, Sermons, III. xviii. 
3. The act of ejecting from a benefice ; ejec- 
tion. 4. The state of being void; vacancy, as 
of a benefice. 5t. Evasion; subterfuge. 
And therefore I am resolved, when I come to my an- 
swer, not to trick ray Innocency (as I writ to the Lords) 
by cavillatlons or roidances, but to speak them the lan- 
guage that my heart speaketh to me, in excusing, extenu- 
ating, or ingenuously confessing. 
Bacon, Letters, p. 137. (tottam.) 
voided (voi'ded), a. [< void, n., + -e<P.] Hav- 
ing a void or opening; pierced through; spe- 
cifically, in her., pierced through 
so as to show the field. When the 
word is used alone It generally denotes 
that only a narrow rim is left of the 
bearing described as voided. See voided 
per cross, below. Also coursie, viude. 
All [spangles) are voitled: that is, hol- 
low in the middle, with the circumfer- 
ence not Hat but convex. . . . Our pres- 
ent spangles, in the flat shape, are quite 
modern. 
5. K. Handbook of Textile Fabrics, p. 93. 
Voided of the field. Sec castle, Voided per cross, in 
her., having an opening of the shape of a plain cross cut 
through It, so as to show the field. See cut under decke. 
Voided per pale, in her., having an opening extend- 
ing palewlse, so as to show the field. 
voider (voi'der). . [Early mod. E. voyder, < 
ME. voider; < OF. rnrfer, a voider, emptier, < 
vuidier, etc., make void: see void, r.] 1. One 
who or that which voids or annuls; one who va- 
cates or empties. 2. Formerly, a tray or bas- 
ket for carrying away utensils, dishes, etc., no 
longer required ; especially, a tray or basket in 
which broken meat was carried from the table. 
See ye haue Voyders ready for to auoyd the Morsels that 
they doe leaue on their Trenchours. 
Babers Book (E. E. T. A p. 67. 
The fool carries them away in a voider. 
MiddUton, No Wit like a Woman's, ii. 3. 
Enter . . . servingmen . . . with a Voyder and a wood- 
den Knife to Uke away all. 
lleytrood, Woman Killed with Kindness. 
3. A clothes-basket. Hatlivrll. [Prov. Eng.] 
4f. A means of avoiding; in the following 
Azure a Saltier 
Voided Argent. 
