Hypertext Webster Gateway: "emptying"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Emptying \Emp"ty*ing\, n.
1. The act of making empty. --Shak.
2. pl. The lees of beer, cider, etc.; yeast. [U.S.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Empty \Emp"ty\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Emptied}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Emptying}.]
To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or
destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to
empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern.
The clouds . . . empty themselves upon the earth.
--Eccl. xi. 3.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
emptying
n : the act of removing the contents of something [syn: {voidance},
{evacuation}]
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