vide, adj., empty, void, blank, devoid, destitute, vacant, vacuous; (mus.) open. Corde à —; open string.
vide, n.m., void, gap, chasm, hole; vacuum, emptiness, vanity; blank, empty space. À —; empty, upon nothing. Mâcher à —; (fig.) to feed on false hopes.
vidé, -e, part., emptied, empty. Jarrets bien —s; (of a horse) clean hocks.
*vide-bouteille, n.m., (—-—s) small country house, country-box (house).
vide-poches, n.m., (—) lady’s work-table, carriage-basket.
vider, v.a., to empty; to vacate; to decide, to end; to settle; to draw (poultry); to gut (fish); to drain. — un étang; to drain a pond. — une clef; to bore a key. — du drap; to pink cloth. — un procès; to adjust, or to settle, a lawsuit. — un différend; to settle a dispute. — ses comptes; to make up one’s accounts. — les lieux, une province, etc.; to leave, to be driven from, a place, a province, etc. (by force).
se vider, v.r., to be emptied; to empty itself (of a thing); to be settled, to be adjusted.
vidimer, v.a., (jur.) to collate, to compare (the copy of a document with the original).
☉vidimus, n.m., the certifying the copy of a document as conforming to the original.
vidrecome, n.m., (l.u.) tumbler, large drinking-glass.