Vacancy (?), n.; pl. Vacancies (#). [Cf. F. vacance.][1913 Webster]
1. The quality or state of being vacant; emptiness; hence, freedom from employment; intermission; leisure; idleness; listlessness.[1913 Webster]
All dispositions to idleness or vacancy, even before they are habits, are dangerous.
2. That which is vacant. Specifically: --[1913 Webster]
(a) Empty space; vacuity; vacuum.[1913 Webster]
How is't with you,That you do bend your eye on vacancy?
(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.[1913 Webster]
(c) Unemployed time; interval of leisure; time of intermission; vacation.[1913 Webster]
Time lost partly in too oft idle vacancies given both to schools and universities.
No interim, not a minute's vacancy.
Those little vacancies from toil are sweet.
(d) A place or post unfilled; an unoccupied office; as, a vacancy in the senate, in a school, etc.[1913 Webster]