(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"cant (?), a. [F., fr. L. vacans, -antis, p. pr. of vacare to be
empty, to be free or unoccupied, to have leisure, also vocare; akin to
vacuus empty, and probably to E. void. Cf. Evacuate, Void, a.]