English English Dictionary

Unengaged with business or care; unemployed; unoccupied; disengaged; free; as, vacant hours.

Not filled or occupied by an incumbent, possessor, or officer; as, a vacant throne; a vacant parish.

Empty of thought; thoughtless; not occupied with study or reflection; as, a vacant mind.

Abandoned; having no heir, possessor, claimant, or occupier; as, a vacant estate.

In a vacant manner; inanely.

To make vacant; to leave empty; to cease from filling or occupying; as, it was resolved by Parliament that James had vacated the throne of England; the tenant vacated the house.

To annul; to make void; to deprive of force; to make of no authority or validity; as, to vacate a commission or a charter; to vacate proceedings in a cause.

To defeat; to put an end to.

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The act of vacating; a making void or of no force; as, the vacation of an office or a charter.

Intermission of a stated employment, procedure, or office; a period of intermission; rest; leisure.

Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess.

The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation.

The time when an office is vacant; esp. (Eccl.), the time when a see, or other spiritual dignity, is vacant.

A cow house, dairy house, or cow pasture.

Vaccinia.

Of or pertaining to vaccinia or vaccination.

To inoculate with the cowpox by means of a virus, called vaccine, taken either directly or indirectly from cows.

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