The lees of beer, &c.
1848.
| ’T will take more emptins, a long chalk, than this noo party ’s gut, | |
| To give sech heavy cakes ez them a start, I tell ye wut. | |
Lowell, ‘Biglow Papers,’ No. 9. |
1860. If we will make bread, we must have contagion, yeast, emptyings, or what not, to induce fermentation into the dough; as the torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.—Emerson, ‘The Conduct of Life, Power, Works,’ ii. 333. (N.E.D.)
