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: as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of
       footsteps in the empty ballroom"
    3: devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow
       victory"; "vacuous comments" [syn: empty, hollow,
       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: hollow,
       holler]
    3: a depression hollowed out of solid matter [syn: hole,
       hollow]
    v 1: remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company
         wants to excavate the hillside" [syn: excavate, dig,
         hollow]
    2: remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk" [syn:
       hollow, hollow out, core out]

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.
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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. [Colloq.]
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         The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have
         beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.
                                                  --Darwin.
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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.
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   2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a
      surface; a concavity; a channel.
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            Forests grew
            Upon the barren hollows.              --Prior.
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            I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.
                                                  --Tennyson.
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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.
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            Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. --Ex. xxvii.
                                                  8.
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   2. Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
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            With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.    --Shak.
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   3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
      deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar. --Dryden.
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   4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as,
      a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton.
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   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.
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Hollow \Hol*low"\, interj. [See Hollo.]
   Hollo.
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Hollow \Hol"low\, v. i.
   To shout; to hollo.
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         Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.
                                                  --Fuller.
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Hollow \Hol"low\, v. t.
   To urge or call by shouting.
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         He has hollowed the hounds.              --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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