Hollow — Defs

01 a. Having an empty space or cavity, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; …

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.
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.

Syn. Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

02 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.

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.

03 v. t. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate.

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

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

04 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.

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.] See: All
“The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.” — Darwin.

05 interj. Hollo.

1.
Hollo.

06 v. i. To shout; to hollo.

1.
To shout; to hollo.
“Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.” — Fuller.

07 v. t. To urge or call by shouting.

1.
To urge or call by shouting.
“He has hollowed the hounds.” — Sir W. Scott.