Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

VOID'ER, 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, n. [Voir dire; Law L. 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.

VOI'TURE, n. [Fr. id.; It. vettura, from L. vectus, veho.]

Carriage. [Not English.] – Arbuthnot.

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

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 fly.]

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 buoyant 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 the aeriform state. Thus substances which affect the smell with pungent or fragrant odors, as musk, hartshorn, and essential oils, are called volatile substances, because they waste away on exposure to the atmosphere. Alcohol and ether are called volatile liquids for a similar reason, and because 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. – Swift. Volatile alkali, an old name of ammonia.

VOL'A-TILE, n.

A winged animal. [Little used.] – Brown.

VOL'A-TILE-NESS, or VOL-A-TIL'I-TY, n. [Fr. volatilité.]

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 pure 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.

VOL'A-TIL-IZE, v.t. [Fr. volatiliser.]

To render volatile; to cause to exhale or evaporate; to cause to pass off in vapor or invisible effluvia, and to rise and float in the air. The water … dissolving the oil, and volatilizing it by the action. – Newton.

VOL'A-TIL-IZ-ED, pp.

Rendered volatile; caused to rise and float in air.

VOL'A-TIL-IZ-ING, ppr.

Rendering volatile; causing to rise and float in air.

VOL-CAN'IC, a. [from volcano.]

1. Pertaining to volcanoes; as, volcanic heat.
2. Produced by a volcano; as, volcanic tufa.
3. Changed or affected by the heat of a volcano.

VOL-CAN-IC'I-TY, n.

State of being volcanic; volcanic power. – Humboldt.

VOL'CAN-IST, n. [from volcano.]

1. One versed in the history and phenomena of volcanoes.
2. One who believes in the effects of eruptions of fire in the formation of mountains.

VOL'CAN-ITE, n.

A mineral, otherwise called augite.

VOL-CAN'I-TY, n.

The state of being volcanic, or of volcanic origin.

VOL-CAN-I-ZA'TION, n. [from volcanize.]

The process of undergoing volcanic heat, and being affected by it.

VOL'CAN-IZE, v.t.

To subject to or cause to undergo volcanic heat, and to be affected by its action. – Spallanzani.

VOL'CAN-IZ-ED, pp.

Affected by volcanic heat.