Noun, : the vacuity of the open sea. ,a mind of undeniable vacuity. ,the vacuity of modern existence. ,a vacuity in the earth formed by erosion. ,a vacuity of feeling. ,conversation full of vacuities.    From Dictionary.com. 

Gardening in towns was an art little considered in his day, and contemporary descriptions show us that 'vacuities' were speedily filled with heaps of dust and refuse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money] Reference

In the scale, wherever it begins or ends, are infinite vacuities.    From Wordnik.com.  [HIERARCHY AND ORDER] Reference

The use of lime in mortar, is to fill up the hollow spaces or vacuities between the grains of sand, and to cement them together, thereby forming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828] Reference

He turned a 19th-century movement into a 21st-century presidential machine, puffed up with candyfloss vacuities such as "traditional values in a changed world".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blair's job was done by 1997: to numb Labour, and to enshrine Thatcherism] Reference

If the eye may be judge, iron must be reckoned to have a great many vacuities, and to be porous like a honey-comb, yet it is the dullest, and sounds worse than any other metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Essays and Miscellanies] Reference

Kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference

Are there not other vacuities which he seemeth not loth to fill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love and Life Behind the Purdah] Reference

Why should there be great vacuities, barren of power and its creative outgoings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recreations in Astronomy With Directions for Practical Experiments and Telescopic Work] Reference

You'd need an astrophysicist to explain the profound vacuities he was able to achieve.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Volokh Conspiracy] Reference

You first fill the glass with slices round-wise cut, and then the Gelly is poured in to fill up the vacuities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference

They are windows opening on a world as small as your bound feet, a world of ignorances, and vacuities, and kitchen-gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Profiles from China] Reference

Cfrcumftances in a period referable fmall Hones in a building, einploy'd to fill up vacuities among thole of a larger fize.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of criticism] Reference

Phenom - Many vacuities or pores are aflually vifible, through a microfcope, in every fpecies of animals, vegetables and foflils.    From Wordnik.com.  [A System of Mechanics: Being the Substance of Lectures Upon that Branch of ...] Reference

Other friends mistakenly made themselves of the party, and kept her talking vacuities when her heart was full, till the train drew up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ragged Lady — Complete] Reference

This contact preserves the distinctive somphospondylus internal bone texture found in the sacral vertebrae, dominated by large camerate vacuities.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The Labour Party simply is, even if it has lost any sense of where it might be going and any historic mission beyond the vacuities of the Third Way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers4Labour] Reference

Michael Clayton, does a superb about-face as the silk-smooth Tully, the type of putatively far-seeing captain of industry who spews philosophical vacuities.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference

He has filled no man's intellectuals so full, but he has left some vacuities in them, that may sometimes send him for supplies to minds of a much lower pitch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. II.] Reference

The present possession fills not up the vacuities of the heart, without the supply of our imaginations, by taking so much in upon the head of the morrow, to speak so.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning] Reference

My endeavour has been to fill in vacuities, to thread together a consistent and connected narrative, and thus, so far as I have been able, to present a true and lucid history.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overbeck] Reference

One hopes that the public taste is much mended in this matter; that vacuum-biographies, with a good many other vacuities related to them, are withdrawn or withdrawing into vacuum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paras. 1-24] Reference

Who in the world finds any change in his affairs, whether there be little vacuities and empty spaces in the air; or whether there is no space, but what is filled and took up with body?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.] Reference

I removed the whole comb, consisting of common cells, from one of my best glass hives, and left that composed of males 'cells alone: and to avoid vacuities, I supplied others of the same kind.    From Wordnik.com.  [New observations on the natural history of bees] Reference

Page 48 the Skin again, which in the mean time has been kept from drying or shrinking; when the Bones are placed right in the Skin, they nicely fill up the vacuities, with a very fine white Sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History and Present State of Virginia, in Four Parts] Reference

It would prove a wise and pleasurable mode of employing some of the intervals of domestic engagement, and furnish both useful and interesting subjects of reflection to fill up the vacuities of thought.    From Wordnik.com.  [Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II] Reference

For all its stunts, vacuities and plain deceptions, there was something undeniably compelling about Gordon Brown’s conference speech in Manchester.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Rentoul today puts Trevor Kavanagh and myself in the...] Reference

« vacuities this exceffive circulation occafioned in.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations] Reference

Or fill the fine vacuities of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation] Reference

There are consequently no vacuities in the uni.    From Wordnik.com.  [HIERARCHY AND ORDER] Reference

Bush's mumbled vacuities didn't reassure anyone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crikey » Canberra Calling] Reference