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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

... moment we entered into a sudden clearing amidst the fog enclosure: a tract of a quarter of an acre, like a hollow center, with the white walls held apart and the stars and moon faintly glimmering down through the ...

— Desert Dust • Edwin L. Sabin

... in good earnest, and so God mend me, and by all pretty oaths that are not dangerous, if you break one jot of your promise, or come one minute behind your hour, I will think you the most pathetical break-promise, and the most hollow lover, and the most unworthy of her you call Rosalind, that may be chosen out of the gross band of the unfaithful: therefore beware my ...

— As You Like It • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]

... a hollow wooden form of the dimensions indicated. The mixture was to be poured into the hopper until the entire form was filled, such mixture flowing down and along the horizontal legs and up the vertical members. It was to ...

— Edison, His Life and Inventions • Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin

... a color holder, with white at the finger tips, black at the wrist, strong colors around the outside, and weaker colors within the hollow. Each finger is a scale of its own color, with white above and black below, while the graying of all the hues is traced by imaginary lines which meet in the middle of the hand. Thus a child's hand may be his substitute for the color sphere, and also make him realize that it is filled ...

— A Color Notation - A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, - Value and Chroma • Albert H. Munsell

... no interest but the intense appearance of truth in them, to recommend them. The whole latter half or two-thirds of "Colonel Jack" is of this description. The beginning of "Colonel Jack" is the most affecting natural picture of a young thief that was ever drawn. His losing the stolen money in the hollow of a tree, and finding it again when he was in despair, and then being in equal distress at not knowing how to dispose of it, and several similar touches in the early history of the Colonel, evince a deep knowledge of human nature, and putting out of question ...

— The Best Letters of Charles Lamb • Charles Lamb

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