(a) Of vessels or receptacles: without content, empty; (b) of a building: unoccupied, vacant, abandoned; (c) of the stomach: without food, empty; (d) of the body or the skin: shrunken, flabby. …

A suffix inherited from OE, with the meaning 'ten', in the cardinal numerals twenti, thriti, fourti, fifti, sixti, seventi, eighteti, ninti and the combs. hundtentiȝ, hundseventi. In ME nearly all……

(a) The membrane forming the outer covering of the brain, the dura mater; ?also, the skull [quot. a1470]; (b) a box, chest, coffer;—also coll. [quot. c1425, 1st]; also, ?a cover for a chest [quot……