From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [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]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hollow \Hol*low"\, interj. [See Hollo.]
Hollo.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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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