n.
A small air cell, or globular space, in the interior of organic cells, either containing air, or a pellucid watery liquid, or some special chemical secretions of the cell protoplasm.
a.
Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.
n.
The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
n.
A space entirely devoid of matter (called also, by way of distinction, absolute vacuum); hence, in a more general sense, a space, as the interior of a closed vessel, which has been exhausted to a high or the highest degree by an air pump or other artificial means; as, water boils at a reduced temperature in a vacuum.
n.
The condition of rarefaction, or reduction of pressure below that of the atmosphere, in a vessel, as the condenser of a steam engine, which is nearly exhausted of air or steam, etc.; as, a vacuum of 26 inches of mercury, or 13 pounds per square inch.
n. pl.
An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading, swimming, and cursorial birds.
v. i.
To fade; hence, to vanish.
A book or other thing that a person carries with him as a constant companion; a manual; a handbook.
n.
A bond or pledge for appearance before a judge on a certain day.
n.
Pledge; security; bail. See Mortgage.
a.
Crafty; cunning; sly; as, vafrous tricks.
a.
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
a.
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
a.
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
n.
One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
v. i.
To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.
n.
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy.