Hollow /(?)/

Hol·low

Hollow

a.
  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.
  3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
  4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

Phrases & Compounds
Hollow newel
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
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
See Moschatel.
Hollow square
See Square.
Hollow ware
hollow vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware, etc.

Hollow

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.
    I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

Hollow

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Hollowed; p. pr. & vb. n. Hollowing

  1. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

Hollow

adv.
  1. 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.

Hollow

interj.
  1. Hollo.

Hollow

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

Hollow

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