Obs. An abbrev. of VOIDEE, prob. through misunderstanding the spelling voide.
1461–83. Househ. Ord. (1790), 36. The King never taketh a voyd of comfittes and other spices, but standing.
1587. Holinshed, Chron., III. 934/1. To whome the earle of Sussex in a goodlie spice plate brought a void of spice and comfets.
1616. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., III. 91. After the void, praeserves in silvern plate Set suche a postscripte to ann antedate, As not a common penn knowes to define.
