Emily Dickinson Lexicon

EMP'TY, v.t.

1. To exhaust; to make void or destitute; to deprive of the contents; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
2. To pour out the contents; as, rivers empty themselves into the ocean. The clouds empty themselves on the earth. Eccles. xi.
3. To waste; to make desolate. Jer. li.