Hypertext Webster Gateway: "voiding"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Void \Void\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Voided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Voiding}.] [OF. voidier, vuidier. See {Void}, a.]
1. To remove the contents of; to make or leave vacant or
empty; to quit; to leave; as, to void a table.

Void anon her place. --Chaucer.

If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or
void the field. --Shak.

2. To throw or send out; to evacuate; to emit; to discharge;
as, to void excrements.

A watchful application of mind in voiding
prejudices. --Barrow.

With shovel, like a fury, voided out The earth and
scattered bones. --J. Webster.

3. To render void; to make to be of no validity or effect; to
vacate; to annul; to nullify.

After they had voided the obligation of the oath he
had taken. --Bp. Burnet.

It was become a practice . . . to void the security
that was at any time given for money so borrowed.
--Clarendon.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Voiding \Void"ing\, a.
Receiving what is ejected or voided. ``How in our voiding
lobby hast thou stood?'' --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Voiding \Void"ing\, n.
1. The act of one who, or that which, v?ids. --Bp. Hall.

2. That which is voided; that which is ejected or evacuated;
a remnant; a fragment. [R.] --Rowe.

{Voiding knife}, a knife used for gathering up fragments of
food to put them into a voider.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

voiding
n : the bodily process of discharging waste matter [syn: {elimination},
{evacuation}, {excretion}, {excreting}]


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