EMPTY

An Illustrated Encyclopedic Medical Dictionary · 1892 · p. 33

adj. E2mp'ti2. A.-S., emptig. Gr, ictvot. Lat., vacnus. Fr., vide. Ger., leer. Containing nothing (in botany, said of bracts in the axils of which no flower-buds are produced). [B, 77 (a, 24).] [s. 695]