Va"can*cy (?), n.; pl.
Vacancies (#). [Cf. F. vacance.]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness;
hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness;
listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before
they are habits, are dangerous.
Sir H. Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: --
(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you,
That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
Shak.
(b) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or
things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy
between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or
thoughts.
(c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of
intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both
to schools and universities.
Milton.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy.
Shak.
Those little vacancies from toil are
sweet.
Dryden.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office;
as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
Va"can*cy (?), n.; pl.
Vacancies (#). [Cf. F. vacance.]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness;
hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness;
listlessness.
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before
they are habits, are dangerous.
Sir H. Wotton.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: --
(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.
How is't with you,
That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
Shak.
(b) An open or unoccupied space between bodies or
things; an interruption of continuity; chasm; gap; as, a vacancy
between buildings; a vacancy between sentences or
thoughts.
(c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of
intermission; vacation.
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both
to schools and universities.
Milton.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy.
Shak.
Those little vacancies from toil are
sweet.
Dryden.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office;
as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.
