EMPTY
Emp"ty, n.; pl. Empties (.
Defn: An empty box, crate, cask, etc.; — used in commerce, esp. in transportation of freight; as, "special rates for empties."
EMPTY
Emp"ty, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Emptied; p. pr. & vb. n. Emptying.]
Defn: 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.
EMPTY
Emp"ty, v. i.
1. To discharge itself; as, a river empties into the ocean.
2. To become empty. "The chapel empties." B. Jonson.
EMPTYING
Emp"ty*ing, n.
1. The act of making empty. Shak.
2. pl.