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   Hollow , a. [OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow, hole.  Cf. Hole.]
   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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   Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
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   With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
   Shak.
   
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   Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
   Dryden.
   
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   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.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.
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   Hollow , 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.
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   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, 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, 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 , interj. [See Hollo.] Hollo.
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   Hollow , 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, v. t. To urge or call by shouting.
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   He has hollowed the hounds.
   Sir W. Scott. 
   
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