Vacant

va'kant, a. Deprived of contents; empty; not filled; unengaged with busine or care; unem-; linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. ployed; unoccupied; not occupied with an incumbent, po e or, or officer; not occupied with or reflection; thoughtle . {Law.) Abandoned; ing rto heir, po e or, claimant, or occupier. — can6y, -sT, re. Quality of being vacant; emptine ; freedom from employment; leisure: idlene which is vacant; empty space; vacuity; a space tween bodies or things: chasm; gap; unemployed time; interval of leisure; a place or post unfilled; unoccupied office.— Va'cate, -kat, v. t. To make cant, leave empty: to annul, make void, make authority or validity. — Vaca'tion, n. The act cating, making void, or of no force; intermi ion stated employment, procedure, or office; stated val in a round of duties, busine , or study (Laiv.) Intermi ion of judicial proceedings space of time between the end of one term and ginning of the next; non-term. The intermi ion the regular studies and exercises of a college other seminary, when the students have a the time when a see or other spiritual dignity cant. — Vadium, -u-um, n. Space empty or of all matter or body: space from which the been exhausted. — Vac'uist, re. One who holds the doctrine of a vacuum in nature.— Vacuity, Y-tY, n. Quality or condition of being vacuous state of being unfilled; emptine ; space unfilled unoccupied, or occupied with an invisible fluid emptine : void; vacuum. — Vac'uous, -u-us, Emptv; void. 494