Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Hollow"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, n.
1. 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.
2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a
surface; a concavity; a channel.
Forests grew Upon the barren hollows. --Prior.
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
--Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow,
hole. Cf. {Hole}.]
1. 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. --Ex. xxvii.
8.
2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. --Shak.
3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
{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.
Syn: Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false;
faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hollowed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Hollowing}.]
To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to
excavate. ``Trees rudely hollowed.'' --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, 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. [Collog.]
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have
beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
--Darwin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol*low"\, interj. [See {Hollo}.]
Hollo.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. i.
To shout; to hollo.
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
--Fuller.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t.
To urge or call by shouting.
He has hollowed the hounds. --Sir W.
Scott.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
hollow
adj 1: not solid; having a space or gap or cavity; "a hollow wall";
"a hollow tree"; "hollow cheeks"; "his face became
gaunter and more hollow with each year" [ant: {solid}]
2: deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false
pretenses" [syn: {false}]
3: as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of
footsteps in the empty ballroom"
4: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow
victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: {empty}, {vacuous}]
n 1: a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the
hollows in their cheeks"
2: a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin
in a hollow high up in the Appalachians" [syn: {holler}]
3: a depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: {hole}]
v 1: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company
wants to excavate the hillsite" [syn: {excavate}, {dig}]
2: remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" [syn: {hollow
out}, {core out}]
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