Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VOICE, v.t.

1. To rumor; to report. It was voiced that thc king purposed to put to death Edward Plantagenet. [Little used.] Shak.
2. To fit for producing the proper sounds; to regulate the tone of; as, to voice the pipes of an organ. Ed. Encyc.
3. To vote.

VOIC'ED, pp.

1. Fitted to produce the proper tones.
2. adj. Furnished with a voice. Denham.

VOICE-LESS, a. vois'less.

Having no voice or vote. Coke.

VOIC'ING, n.

The act of giving to an organ its proper quality of tone.

VOIC'ING, ppr.

Fitting the pipe of an organ to produce its proper quality of tone.

VOID, a. [Fr. vuide; It. volo; L. viduus; Sw. ode; G. and Dan. ode, waste, which seems to be the Eng. wide; so waste and vast are from one root. It coincides with Gr. {foreign}, and the root of L. divide, Ar. {foreign}, hada, to separate. Class lid, No. I, See also No. 48.]

1. Empty; vacant; not occupied with any visible matter; us, a trod space or place. 1 Kings xxii.
2. Empty; without inhabitants or furniture. Gen. I.
3. Having. no legal or binding force; null; not effectual to f bind parties, or to convey or support a right; not sufficient to produce its effect. Thus a deed not duly signed and; sealed, is void. A fraudulent contract is void, or may be rendered void. My word shall not return to me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please. Is. lv. I wilt make void the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem in this place. Jer. xix.
4. Free; clear; as, a conscience void of offence. Acts xxiv.
5. Destitute; as, void of learning; void of reason or common sense. He that Is void of wisdom, despiseth his neighbor. Prov. xl.
6. Unsupplied; vacant; unoccupied; having no incumbent. Divers offices that had been long void. Camden.
7. Unsubstantial; vain. Lifeless Idol, void and vsin. Pope.
8. Void space, in physics, a vacuum.
9. To make void, to violate; to transgress. They have made void thy law. Ps. cxix.
10. To render useless or of no effect. Rom. iv.

VOID, n.

An empty space; a vacuum. Pride, where wit falls, steps In to our defense, And tills op all the mighty void of sense. Pope. Th' illimitable void. Thomson.

VOID, v.i.

To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman.

VOID, v.t.

1. To quit; to leave. Bid them come down, Or void the field. Shak.
2. To emit; to send out; to evacuate; as, to void excrementitious matter; to void worms.
3. To vacate; to annul; to nullify; to render of no validity or effect. It had become a practice-to void the security given for money borrowed. Clarendon.
4. To make or leave vacant.

VOID'A-BLE, a.

1. That may be annulled or made void, or that may be adjudged void, invalid, or of no force. Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence.
2. That may be evacuated.

VOID'ANCE, n.

1. The act of emptying.
2. The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.
3. Vacancy; want of an incumbent. Cyc.
4. Evasion; subterfuge. Bacon.]

VOID'ED, pp.

1. Thrust out; evacuated.
2. adj. In heraldry, [an ordinary is said to be voided, when the inner part is cut away, and only the outside strips left. E. H. B.]

VOIDER, n.

1. A basket in which broken meat is carried from the table. Cleaveland.
2. One who evacuates.
3. One who nullifies.
4. In heraldry, one of the ordinaries, whose figure is much like that of the flanch or flasque. [This word is scarcely recognized in the nomenclature of heraldry.---E. H. B.]
5. In agriculture, a provincial name of a kind of shallow basket of open work. England.

VOID'ING, ppr.

1. Ejecting; evacuating.
2. Making or declaring void, or of no force.
3. Quitting; leaving.
4. adj. Receiving what is ejected; as, a voiding lobby. Shak.

VOID'NESS, n.

1. Emptiness; vacuity; destitution.
2. Nullity; inefficacy; want of binding force.
3. Want of substantiality. Hakewill.

VOIR-DIRE, [Law Lat. verum dicere.]

In law, an oath administered to a person intended as a witness, requiring him to make true answers to questions. It is often administered to such as are supposed to be interested, or to have formed opinions to bias the mind.

VOITURE, n. [Fr. id.; It. vettura, from L. vectus, who.]

Carriage. [Not English.] Arbuthnot.

VO-LA'CIOUS, a. [L. solo.]

Apt or fit to fly.

VOL-AL'KA-LI, n.

Volatile alkali; by contraction. Kirwan, Geol.

VO'LANT, a. [Fr. flying, from voler, L. volo, to Ay.]

1. Flying; passing through the air; as, volant automata. Wilkins.
2. Nimble; active; as, volant touch. Milton.
3. In heraldry, represented as flying or having the wings spread.

VOL'A-TILE, a. [Fr. from L. volatilis, from volo, to fly.]

1. Flying; passing through the air on wings, or by the buoy ant force of the atmosphere.
2. Having the power to fly; as, birds are volatile animals. Ray. Bacon.
3. Capable of wasting away, or of easily passing into tin aeriform state. Thus substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn, ant essential oils, are called volatile substances, because the] waste away on exposure to the atmosphere. Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and be cause they easily pass into the state of vapor on the application of heat. On the contrary, gold is a fixed substance because it does not suffer waste, even when exposed to the heat of a furnace; and oils are called fixed, when they do not evaporate on simple exposure to the atmosphere.
4. Lively; gay full of spirit; airy; hence, fickle; apt to change; as, a volatile temper. Watts. You are as giddy and volatile as ever. Volatile alkali, an old name of ammonia.

VOL'A-TILE, n.

A winged animal. [Little used.] Brows

VOL'A-TILE-NESS, or VOL'A-TILI-TY, n. [Fr. volatilite.]

1. Disposition to exhale or evaporate; the quality of being capable of evaporation; that property of a substance which disposes it to rise and float in the air, and thus to be dissipated; as, the volatility of fluids. Ether is remarkable for its volatility. Many or most solid bodies are susceptible of volatility by the action of intense heat. By the spirit of a plant we understand that pore elaborated oil, which, by reason of its extreme volatility, exhales spontaneously, and in which the odor or smell consists. Arbuthnot.
2. Great sprightliness; levity; liveliness; whence, mutability of mind; fickleness; as, the volatility of youth.

VOL'A-TIL-IZ-A-BLE, a.

That may be volatilized.

VOL-A-TIL-I-ZA'TION, n. [from volatilize.]

The act or process of rendering volatile, or rather of causing to rise and float in the air. Boyle.