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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	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]

	

	293 Moby Thesaurus words for "hollow":
   absurd, abysm, abyss, alveolation, alveolus, antrum, aperture,
   apparently sound, arid, armpit, artificial, bare, baritone, barren,
   basin, bass, blah, bland, blank, bleached, bloodless, boat-shaped,
   boatlike, booth, bootless, bowl, bowl-shaped, bowllike, box,
   broaching, casuistic, cave, cave in, cavelike, cavern, cavernous,
   cavity, cell, cellule, chamber, characterless, chasm, check, clear,
   clearing, cleft, cold, colorable, colorless, compartment, concave,
   concaved, concavity, contralto, costly, counterfeit, crack, crater,
   craterlike, crevasse, crib, crypt, cup, cup-shaped, cupped,
   cymbiform, cynical, dale, dead, deceitful, deceptive, deep,
   deep-echoing, deep-pitched, deep-toned, deepmouthed, dell, dent,
   dented, depressed, depression, depth, devoid, dig out, dig up, dip,
   disclosure, dish, dish-shaped, dished, dishing, dishlike,
   dishonest, disingenuous, dismal, draggy, drearisome, dreary,
   dredge, dry, dryasdust, dull, dusty, effete, elephantine, empty,
   empty-headed, empty-minded, empty-pated, empty-skulled,
   enclosed space, etiolated, excavate, excavation, fade, fallacious,
   false, famished, fatuitous, fatuous, featureless, feigned,
   fenestra, fistula, flat, fold, follicle, fontanel, foramen,
   fraudulent, fruitless, funnel chest, funnel-breasted,
   funnel-chested, funnel-shaped, furrow, futile, gap, gape, gat,
   glen, gouge, grave, gulf, heavy, hiatus, ho-hum, hold, hole,
   hollow out, hollow shell, hollowed, hungry, hypocritical, idle,
   illusive, impression, inane, incurve, incurved, incurving,
   incurvous, indentation, indented, ineffective, inexcitable,
   infundibular, infundibuliform, inlet, insincere, insipid, interval,
   jejune, jesuitic, lacuna, laying open, leaden, leak, lifeless, low,
   low-pitched, low-spirited, manger, mealymouthed, meaningless,
   mendacious, muffled, navicular, naviform, null, null and void,
   opening, opening up, orifice, otiose, outlet, overrefined,
   oversubtle, pale, pallid, passageway, pedestrian, pew,
   philosophistic, pit, plausible, plodding, pocket, pointless, poky,
   ponderous, pore, profitless, punch bowl, rattlebrained,
   rattleheaded, ravenous, retire, retiring, retreat, retreating,
   reverberant, sag, saucer-shaped, scaphoid, scatterbrained, scoop,
   scyphate, senseless, sepulchral, shaft, sham, shell, sink, sinkage,
   sinkhole, sinus, slot, slow, socket, solemn, sophistic,
   sophistical, space, specious, spiritless, split, spoonlike,
   spurious, stall, starved, sterile, stiff, stodgy, stoma, stuffy,
   sunk, sunken, superficial, tasteless, tedious, throwing open,
   toneless, tongue in cheek, trough, unavailing, uncandid, uncorking,
   unfilled, unfrank, unlively, unprofitable, unrelieved, unserious,
   unstopping, vacant, vacuity, vacuous, vain, valley, valueless,
   vapid, vault, void, vug, well, white, with nothing inside,
   without content, wooden, worthless, yawn, yawning abyss