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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

... unreasonable. They did the wrong thing. They called green, yellow; and black, white. Young men said of a girl, 'What a lovely, simple creature!' I looked, and there was only a glistening wisp of straw, dry and hollow. Or they said, 'What a cold, proud beauty!' I looked, and lo! a Madonna, whose heart held the world. Or they said, 'What a wild, giddy girl!' and I saw a glancing, dancing mountain stream, pure as the virgin snows whence it flowed, singing through ...

— Prue and I • George William Curtis

... that sad last hiding place among the fern. Both in 1660 and in 1688, while the fate of the nation still hung in the balance, forgiveness was exchanged between the hostile factions. On both occasions the reconciliation, which had seemed to be cordial in the hour of danger, proved false and hollow in the hour of triumph. As soon as Charles the Second was at Whitehall, the Cavalier forgot the good service recently done by the Presbyterians, and remembered only their old offences. As soon ...

— The History of England from the Accession of James II. - Volume 3 (of 5) • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... holes a small crowd was pressing eagerly, while one man, standing in the hollow, was lifting the few remaining stones off something that lay there at the bottom. I pushed my way between the straggling legs of a big fisher lad, and peered over with the rest. A ray of sunlight streamed down into the pit, and the thing at the bottom gleamed ...

— John Ingerfield and Other Stories • Jerome K. Jerome

... as her thoughts reverted to that which she had to confide; for a few minutes the tears rained down her hollow cheeks; she then appeared to have summoned resolution, and ...

— The Phantom Ship • Frederick Marryat

... blacksmith the broken bits of the spring he took them in the hollow of his big palm ...

— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field

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