Hollow
Hollow , adjective
[Old English holow, holgh, holf, Anglo-Saxon holh a hollow, hole. Compare 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.
2.
Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
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
Collocations (5)
Hollow newel (Architecture) , 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 (Engineering) , 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 square , See Square.
Hollow ware , hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.
Hollow , noun
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.
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
Hollow , transitive verb
To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.
Trees rudely hollowed.
Hollow , adverb
Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Colloquial]
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
Hollow , interjection
[See Hollo.]
Hollo.
Hollow , intransitive verb
To shout; to hollo.
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
Hollow , transitive verb
To urge or call by shouting.
He has hollowed the hounds.