Vacancy, 1) empty space, vacuity: “that you do bend your eye on v.” Hml. III, 4, 117. “whistling to the air, which, but for v., had gone to gaze on Cleopatra too and made a gap in nature,” Ant. II, 2, 221.
2) empty and idle time: “if he filled his v. with his voluptuousness,” Ant. I, 4, 26.
3) intermission: “no interim, not a minute's v., but day and night did we keep company,” Tw. V, 98.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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