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I assay to see 
The works of men; or heare mortalitie 
Expire a voice. Chapman. 
Sound of the mouth, as distinguished from that uttered by 
another mouth.—Air in sounds that are not tones, which are 
all equal, admitteth much variety, as in the voices of living 
creatures, and in the voices of several men; for we can 
discern several men by their voices. Bacon. —Any sound 
made by breath. 
O Marcus, I am warm’d; my heart 
Leaps at the trumpet’s voice, and burns for glory. Addison. 
Vote; suffrage; opinion expressed. 
Are you all resolv’d to give your voices ? 
But that’s no matter, the greater part carries it. Shakspeare. 
Language; words; expression.—Let us call on God in the 
voice of his church. Fell. 
To VOICE, v. a. To rumour; to report. Out of use. 
Is this the Athenian minion, whom the world 
Voic'd so regardfully? Shakspeare. 
To vote. Obsolete. 
Your minds, pre-occupied with what 
You rather must do, than what you should do, 
Made you, against the grain, to voice him consul. 
Shakspeare. 
To VOICE, v. n. To clamour; to make outcries. Ob¬ 
solete. —Stir not questions of jurisdiction; and rather assume 
thy right in silence, than voice it with claims. Bacon. 
VOI'CED, adj. Furnished with a voice.—Ovid advised 
women, who are so angel-like voiced, to learn, by music’s 
rules, to order it. Austin. 
VOID, adj. [yuide, Fr.] Empty; vacant. 
I’ll get me to a place more void, and there 
Speak to great Caesar as he comes along. Shakspeare. 
Vain ; ineffectual; null; vacated.—If it be void, and to 
purpose, that the names of men are so frequent in their books, 
what did move them to bring them in ? Hooker. —Unsup¬ 
plied ; unoccupied.—Queen Elizabeth, importuned much to 
supply divers great offices that had been long void, answered 
nothing to the matter, but rose up on the sudden, and said, 
I am sure my office will not be long void. Camden. — 
Wanting; unfurnished; empty.—How void of reason are 
our hopes and fears! Dry den .—Unsubstantial; unreal.— 
Senseless, lifeless idol, void and vain. Pope. 
VOID, s. An empty space; vacuum; vacancy. 
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, 
And fills up all the mighty void of sense. Pope. 
To VOID, v. a. [vuider, Fr.] To quit; to leave empty. 
If they will fight with us, bid them come down, 
Or void the field. Shakspeare. 
To emit; to pour out.—The ascending water is vented by 
fits, every circumvolution voiding only so much as is con¬ 
tained in one helix. Wilkins. —To emit as excrement. 
Believ’d the heavens were made of stone, 
Because the sun had voided one. JIudibras. 
To vacate; to nullify; to annul.—It was become a prac¬ 
tice, upon any specious pretences, to void the security 
that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Cla¬ 
rendon. 
To VOID, v. n. To be emitted.—By the use of emul¬ 
sions, and frequent emollient injections, his urine voided 
more easily. Wiseman. —To receive what is emitted. 
How in our voiding lobby hast thou stood, 
And duly waited for my coming forth. Shakspeare. 
VOID, a town of France, department of the Maese; 6 
miles south-by-east of Commercy. 
VOI'DABLE, adj. Such as may be annulled.—If the 
metropolitan, pretending the party deceased had bona nota- 
bilia in divers dioceses, grants letters of administration, 
such administration is not void, but voidable by a sentence. 
Ay life. 
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VO'IDANCE, s. The act of emptying. Ejection from 
a benefice. 
VOIDER, s. A basket, in which broken meat is carried 
from the table. 
A voider for the nonce, 
I wrong the devil, should I pick their bones, Cleveland. 
VO'IDNESS, s. Emptiness; vacuity. 
Through him the cold began to covet heat, 
And water fire; the light to mount on hie, 
And tli’ heavy down to poise; th’ hungry t' eat, 
And voidness to seek full satiety. Spenser. 
Nullity; inefficacy; want of substantiality.—If thereby 
you understand their nakedness and voidness of all mixt 
bodies, good divines are of opinion, that tire work of the 
creation was not in itself distinguished by days. Hake- 
will. 
VOIL, Loch, a lake of Scotland, in Perthshire, in the 
parish of Balquhidder, about three miles long and one broad; 
the source of the river Balvag, one of the principal branches 
of the Teith. 
VOIRON, a town of France, department of the Isere, on 
the river Morges; 14 miles north-west of Grenoble. Popu¬ 
lation 5400. 
VOIRONS, Mont, a mountain of Switzerland, on the 
borders of the lake of Geneva, about 3400 feet above the 
level of the lake. 
VOISENON, (Claude Henry de Fusee du,) a literary 
person of singular character, was born at the chateau of Voi- 
senon, near Melun, in 1708, and educated for the ecclesiasti¬ 
cal profession. He commenced his career of advancement 
by being grand-vicar to the see of Boulogne; but having 
fought a duel, he afterwards contented himself with the 
abbacy of Jard, which was probably a family benefice. He 
was of a lively, humorous disposition, and as he knew 
how to trifle agreeably, he was admitted into fashionable 
society. As a writer, he published several romances, the 
best of which is said to be a kind of moral tale, entitled 
“ L’Histoire de la Felicite.” His comedies of “ Marriages 
assortis,” 1754, and “ La Coquette fixee,” 1746, are reck¬ 
oned to contain strokes of humour which would not have 
been disavowed even by Moliere. He was also the au¬ 
thor of many fugitive pieces. His literary reputation caused 
him to be elected into the French Academy; and the duke 
of Choiseul settled on him a pension of 6000 livres to write 
a French history. He died in 1775, and his works were 
collected in 1782 by his friend, Mad. de Turpin, in 5 vols. 
8vo. Nouv. Piet. Hist. 
VOITEUR, a small town in the east of France, department 
of the Jura ; 6 miles north of Lons le Saulnier. 
VOI'TURE, s. Carriage; transportation by carriage. 
Not in use .—They ought to use exercise by voiturc or car¬ 
riage. Arbuthnot. 
VOITURE, (Vincent,) born at Amiens in the year 1598, 
was a lively French writer. At the court of Lewis XIII. he 
was well received, whose brother, Gaston, duke of Orleans, 
made him master of the ceremonies, and introducer of fo¬ 
reign ambassadors, and whom he followed in his retirement 
to Languedoc. In 1634 he was admitted into the French 
Academy, of which he was a distinguished member, as he 
was well acquainted with the Latin, Italian, and Spanish 
languages. He held the office of interpreter to the queen- 
mother, and was employed in several court commissions. 
At Madrid he ingratiated himself with the count d’Olivares, 
and for the gratification of his curiosity made a tour to Africa. 
His Spanish verses were taken for those of Lopez de Vega; 
and at Rome he was elected, on account of his Italian litera¬ 
ture, a member of the Academy degli Umoristi. His pecu¬ 
liar excellence, like that of Balzac, consisted in letter-writing, 
which he was very slow in executing, and in which he dis¬ 
played much wit and pleasantry, often degenerating into 
affectation, and sometimes into indelicacy. His letters, 
however, notwithstanding their imperfections and faults, 
were much admired, and served as a passport into the poli¬ 
test companies. His poems were of a similar character to 
