empt, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(ɛmpt)
Forms: 1 ǽmetᵹian, ǽmtiᵹan, ǽmtian, 2 æmtien, 4 emte(n, empte, 9 dial. emp, ent, 6– empt.
[OE. ǽmtian (ᵹe-ǽmtian), f. ǽmt-a, ǽmetta leisure; cf. empty a. and v.]
† 1. intr. and refl. To be at leisure. Only in OE.
| c 825 Vesp. Psalter xlv[i]. 10 æmetᵹiað ant ᵹesiað forðon ic eam dryhten. c 1000 ælfric Gram. xxxiii. 206 (Z.) æmtiᵹað eow to rædinge. |
† 2. intr. To become empty. Obs.
| c 1205 Lay. 30408 Feollen ærm kempes; æmteden sadeles. |
3. trans. To make empty; to drain, exhaust. lit. and fig. Const. of. Also refl. = empty v. 2, 3.
| 1340 Ayenb. 58 Ase þo þet emteþ þe herte of hire guode. c 1386 Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. & T. 188 Ther-by shal he nat wynne But empte his purs. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xx. (1495) 450 Abyssus..maye neuer be stoppyd..ne emptyd. 1568 T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 92 There I empt my laden hart. 1630 J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. 27/1 Though a man in study take great paines, And empt his veines. 1640 Brome Antipodes iii. vii, Unlesse I empt My brest of mercy to appease her for you. 1678 Hobbes Nat. Philos. iii. 27 That the Cylinder may empt itself. 1825 Britton Beauties Wilts. Gloss., Empt, to pour out, to empty. 1881 I. of Wight Gloss. (E.D.S.), Empt, to make empty. |
4. To pour forth, discharge, clear out (the contents of a vessel, etc.).
| 1606 Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. To Rdr., Muse, that..Emptedst poore wit poore winde to win. 1623 Cockeram, Extercorate, to empt, or carry out dung. |