voice thrill (voisthril)

Same as vocal fremi tus (which see, under vocal ). voicing (voi's ing), n. [Verbal n. of voice, v.] The act, proce , or result of regulating the tone of organ-pipes, so that they shall sound with the proper power, pitch, and quality. Voicing is the most delicate and important branch of organ-building, since succe in it depends on attention to the minutest details. void (void), a. and n. [ And he that shall a-comply he that sete must also comply he the voyde place at the table that Ioseph made. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 61. The earth was without form, and void (was waste and void , R. V.], and darkne was upon the face of the deep. Gen. i. 2. I'll get me to a place more void , and there Speak to great Cæsar as he comes along. Shak ., J. C., ii. 4. 37. In the void offices around Rung not a hoof, nor bayed a hound. Scott , Rokeby, ii. 17. 2. Having no holder or po e or; vacant; unoccupied; without incumbent. The Bishop rick of Winchester falling void , the king sends presently to the Monks of the Cathedral Church to elect his Brother Athelmar. Baker , Chronicles, p. 83. A plantation should be begun at Agawam (being the best place in the land for tillage and cattle), least an enemy, finding it void , should po e and take it from us. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 118. voider He was glad of the go me, & o goode chere Voidet his viser, auentid hym seluyn. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7092. His locks, as blacke as pitchy night, Were bound about and voyded from before. Spenser, F. Q., VI. vii. 43. 4. To invalidate; annul; nullify; render of no validity or effect. It was become a practice. to void the security that was at any time given for money so borrowed. Clarendon. 51. To avoid; shun. I voyde companye, I fle gladne e. Chaucer , Anelida and Arcite, 1. 295. This was the meane to voyde theyre stryves And alle olde gruchchyng, and her hart is to glade. Political Poems , etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 21. 6t. To dismi ; send away. seille. He leet voyden out of his Chambre alle maner of men, Lordes and othere: for he wolde speke with me in Con Mandeville, Travels, p. 137. So when it liked hire to gon to reste, And voyded weren they that voyden oughte. Chaucer, Troilus, ii. 912. II. in trans. 1t. To go; depart. With grete indygnacyon charged hym shortely without delaye to voyde out of his londe. Joseph of Arimathie (E. E. T. S.), p. 32. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1547. Hit vanist verayly & voyded of syzt. Let all that sweet is void ! In me no mirth may dwell. F. Greville (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 296). until he has disaffirmed it. That which is void is generally 2. (at) To have an evacuation. held incapable of confirmation; that which is simply void- able may be confirmed. 7t. Devoid of wealth; poor. Yif thow haddyst entred in the path of this lyf a voyde wayferinge man, than woldest thow synge byforn the thef. Chaucer , Boethius, ii. prose 5. To make void, to render usele or of no effect. For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void , and the promise made of none effect. Rom. iv. 14. It was thy device By this alliance to make void my suit. Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iii. 3. 142. Void for uncertainty, said of a legal instrument the language of which is so vague or ambiguous that it cannot take effect. Void space, in physics, a vacuum. =Syn. 1, 2, and 4. Devoid, etc. See vacant.-6. Invalid. II. n. 1. An empty or unoccupied space; a vacuum. The Void of Heav'n a gloomy Horror fills. The illimitable Void . Congreve, Birth of the Muse. Thomson, Summer, 1. 34. I do not like to see anything destroyed, any void pro- duced in society. Burke , Rev. in France. What peaceful hours I once enjoyed! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill. Cowper , Oh, for a closer walk with God! 2. An opening; a solution of continuity in an inclosure of any kind; a space unfilled or not built up, as contrasted with closed or occupied areas. The clerestory window [of Notre Dame, Paris],... although larger than such openings had been in Romanesque design, neverthele is simply an opening in a wall, the area of the solid still being greater than that of the void . C. H. Moore, Gothic Architecture, p. 86. 3t. The last course or remove; the de ert. There was a void of spice-plates and wine. Coronation of Anne Boleyn (Arber's Eng. Garner, II. 50). void (void), v. [ voider , voidier , vuidier , vuider , F. vider = Pr. voiar , voyar , vueiar , voidar = Cat. vuydar , make void; from the adj. Cf. avoid .] I. trans . 1. To make or leave vacant; quit; vacate; depart from; leave; hence, to clear; free; empty. They voidede the cite of Ravenne by certeyn day a ingned. Chaucer , Boëthius, i. prose 4. Now this feest is done, voyde ye the table. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 271. Good Frederick, see the rooms be voided straight. Marlowe , Faustus, iii. 4. If they will fight with us, bid them come down, Or void the field. The princes would be private. Shak., Hen. V., iv. 7. 62. Void the presence. Marston, The Fawne, iii. 31. Not taken up with busine ; leisure. 2. To emit, throw, or send out; empty out; specifically, to evacuate from the intestine or All the void time that is between the hours of work, bladder: as, to void excrementitious matter. sleep, and meat, that they be suffered to bestow every man as he liketh best himself. Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 4. I chain him in my study, that, at void hours, I may run over the story of his country. Mas singer. 4. Being without; devoid; destitute; lacking; without; free from: usually with of : as, void of learning; void of common sense. The moste parte of noble men and gentlemen within this Realme haue bene brought vp ignorantly and voide of good educac[i]ons. Booke of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 10. The place of the Welles and of the Walles and of many other thinges ben zit a pertly sene; but the riche e is voyded clene. Mandeville , Travels, p. 279. Whan the water was all voided , the i saugh the two stones that were vpon the two dragons. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 38. You that did void your rheum upon my beard, And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold. Shak., M. of V., i. 3. 118. 3t. To lay aside; cease to use; divest one's self of. Here, for example, is "the memorable and prodigious history of a girl who for many years neither ate nor slept nor voided ." Pop. Sci. Mo., XXXVI. 544. (b) To be emitted or evacuated. Wiseman , Surgery. [Rare.]-3t. To become empty or vacant. Hit is wel oure entent whanne any sucche benefice voyd eth of oure yifte yat ye make collacion to him yr of. Henry V. (Ellis's Hist. Letters, I. 71). voidable (voi'da-bl), a. [ void + -able .] 1. Capable of being voided or evacuated.-2. In law , such that some person has a right to have it annulled. See void , v. t., 6. Such administration is not void, but voidable by sentence. Ayliffe , Parergon. Voidable contract. See contract. voidance (voi'dans), n. [ Voydaunce (or voydynge), vacacio, evacuacio. Prompt. Parv., p. 511. 2. The act of casting away or getting rid. What pains they require in the voidance of fond conceits. Barrow, Sermons, III. xviii. 3. The act of ejecting from a benefice; ejection.-4. The state of being void; vacancy, as of a benefice.-5t. Evasion; subterfuge. And therefore I am resolved, when I come to my answer, not to trick my innocency (as I writ to the Lords) by cavillations or voidances , but to speak them the language that my heart speaketh to me, in excusing, extenuating, or ingenuously confe ing. Bacon, Letters, p. 137. ( Latham . ) voided (voi'ded), a. [ her ., pierced through pierced so as to show the field. When the word is used alone it generally denotes that only a narrow rim is left of the bearing described as voided. See voided per cro , below. Also coursie, viudé . All [spangles] are voided : that is, hollow in the middle, with the circumference not flat but convex. Our present spangles, in the flat shape, are quite modern. S. K. Handbook of Textile Fabrics , p. 93. Azure a Saltier Voided Argent. Voided of the field. See castle, 2. - Voided per cro , in her., having an opening of the shape of a plain cro cut through it, so as to show the field. See cut under cleché. - Voided per pale, in her., having an opening extend. ing palewise, so as to show the field. voider (voi'der), n. [Early mod. E. voyder, See ye haue Voyders ready for to auoyd the Morsels that they doe leaue on their Trench ours. Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 67. IMG:content-1927.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1928.png:[blocks in formation] With voiders vnder vines for violent sonnes. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 339. 5. In her., same as flasque. -6. In medieval armor, a contrivance for covering any part of the body which the plate-armor left exposed, as at the joints. It was commonly of chain-mail. The name was also given to the rondels. Compare gu et. voiding (voi'ding), n. [Verbal n. of void, v.] 1. The act of one who or that which voids.-2. That which is voided; a remnant; a fragment. Argent two Void ers Gules. IMG:content-1929.png:[blocks in formation]