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adjective

Hollow adj.

Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. "Hollow with boards shalt thou make it."

Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken. "With hollow eye and wrinkled brow."

Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of such a staircase.

Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or recess to receive the ends of the gates.

Hollow root. (Bot.) See Moschatel.

Hollow square. See Square.

Hollow ware, hollow vessels; a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

Synonyms: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

noun

Hollow n.

A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel. "Forests grew Upon the barren hollows." "I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood."

verb

Hollow v. t. (past & past part. hollowed; pres. part. hollowing) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed."

Hollow v. t. To urge or call by shouting. "He has hollowed the hounds."

Hollow v. i. To shout; to hollo. "Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear."

adverb

Hollow adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. (Colloq.) "The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence."

interjection

Hollow interj. Hollo.

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Etymology of 'Hollow'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hollow" Quotes from Famous Books

... the snows were melting in the woods, he was told by Mohawk children that the body was lying, where it had been flung, in a lonely spot lower down the stream. He went to seek it; found the scattered bones, stripped by the foxes and the birds; and, tenderly gathering them up, hid them in a hollow tree, hoping that a day might come when he could give them a Christian burial ...

— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... from a narrow window into the street. He felt his way, and every step sent the life-blood curdling to his heart. He reached the topmost stair; laid one hand on the latch. He listened; all was still save the hollow gusts ...

— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby

... about to lay upon the land. When the flakes began to fall thickly Mother Grizzly quit digging roots and turning over rocks, and sought shelter. The long slope was smooth and bare, but down near the foot was a fallen pine with upturned roots, and into the hollow where the roots had been, under the lee of the matted mass of fibre and dirt, Mother Grizzly led her babies and there made her bed for the night. It was a longer night than the old bear expected. It lasted until the next day's westering sun made a pale, bluish glimmer through ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly

... cold to fiddle; but I don't!" Chirpy said. "I'm quite warm down here on the ground. This little hollow where I'm sitting is sheltered from the wind. So I'll fiddle for your friend." As he spoke he began ...

— The Tale of Chirpy Cricket • Arthur Scott Bailey

... was his dinner. He was busy writing letters all the afternoon; it was not until he had handed them to the post-mistress that his mind was free to think of poor James Murdoch, who had built a cabin at the end of one of the famine roads in a hollow out of the way of the wind. From a long way off the priest could see him digging ...

— The Untilled Field • George Moore

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