vbl. sb. [f. EMPT v. + -ING1.] = EMPTYING; in U.S. the pl. in the sense ‘yeast’ is pronounced (e·mptins) but often written emptyings: see EMPTYING 2 b.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 139. Emtyng, or a voydynge.
1884. Lowell, Poet. Wks. (1871), 219. T’will take more emptins … than this new party’s gut, To give such heavy cakes as them a start.
