ˈvoided, ppl. a.
[f. void v.]
† 1. Made void or empty; emptied or cleared of contents. Obs.
| 1382 Wyclif Job xiv. 11 What maner if watris gon awei fro the se, and flod voided [L. fluvius vacuefactus] waxe drie. 1426 Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 6177 Humblely I yow be-seke,..My voyded herte to fulfylle, Wych so longe..hath voyde be. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 512/1 Voydy[d], or avoydyd (K. voydid,..auoyded), evacuatus. c 1482 J. Kay tr. Caoursin's Siege of Rhodes (1870) ¶10 [The bridge] was made with voyded pypes and with bords strongly nayled upon them. 1563 A. Neville Seneca's Œdipus i. A iij, The corne..Nowe to the voided Barnes nought els but emptie stalkes doth bring. |
2. Having a part or portion cut out so as to leave a void or vacant space: † a. Of shoes: Made with the front or uppers cut away or left open. Obs.
| a 1539 in Archaeologia XLVII. 53 That noon of the said religious susters doo use..eny such voyded shoys. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. ii. 121 They vse a kinde of voided shoes (whiche afterwarde the Grieques toke vp, and called sandalium). 1565 Cooper Thesaurus, Crepida, a low voyded shooe with a latchet. |
† b. Of a garment: Cut so as to show the skin or another garment beneath. Obs. rare.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 6 b, Doblettes of Crimosin veluet, voyded lowe on the backe and before to the cannell bone. a 1623 G. Buck Rich. III, i. (1646) 26 The King and Queene..then ascended to the high Altar shifting their Robes, and putting on other open and voyded in sundry places for their Anoynting. |
c. Her. Of a charge or ordinary (see quots. 1704, 1780). voided per cross (see quot. c 1828).
| 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie 26 There are also to bee..seene in armes Crosses doble partited,..persed, graded, & voyded, &c. Ibid. ii. 126 He beareth Argent, on a Bende Gules, thre Mascles de Or, voyded... Whensoeuer ye shall see eyther Losenge, Mascle, or other thynge voyded of the fielde, Fesse, bende, &c., whereon theye stande, it is sufficient to saye, voyded, onelye. 1704 J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Voided, a Term in Heraldry, when there are Lines drawn within, and Parallel to the out Lines of any Ordinary: This expresses an Exemption of something of the thing Voidable, and makes the Field appear transparent thro' the Charge. 1780 Edmondson Her. II, Voided, is a term applied to any ordinary, as a fesse, chevron, pale, etc. when it is pierced through, so that the field appears, and nothing remains of the charge but its edge. c 1828 Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Voided per cross is a voiding in the form of a cross, such as a cross moline, and the like, voided, or cut out in the middle in the shape of a plain cross, through which the field is seen. 1864 Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxxi. (ed. 3) 460 A cross gu., voided of the field. 1883 C. F. Keary in S. L. Poole Coins & Medals (1894) 114 The pennies of Alexander II. have short and long voided crosses, like those of Henry III. |
3. Emitted by evacuation; evacuated. rare.
| 1784 Cowper Task v. 95 Their nauseous dole..Of voided pulse and half-digested grain. |