Hollow word meaning and definition

[noun] a depression hollowed out of solid matter
[noun] a small valley between mountains; "he built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Appalachians"
[noun] a cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"
[adjective] devoid of significance or point; "empty promises"; "a hollow victory"; "vacuous comments"
[adjective] as if echoing in a hollow space; "the hollow sound of footsteps in the empty ballroom"
[adjective] deliberately deceptive; "hollow (or false) promises"; "false pretenses"
[adjective] 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"
[verb] remove the interior of; "hollow out a tree trunk"
[verb] remove the inner part or the core of; "the mining company wants to excavate the hillsite"

\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. 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. --Dryden. 4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend. --Milton. {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.
\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. 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.
\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.
\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. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. --Darwin.
\Hol*low"\, interj. [See {Hollo}.] Hollo.
\Hol"low\, v. i. To shout; to hollo. Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. --Fuller.
\Hol"low\, v. t. To urge or call by shouting. He has hollowed the hounds. --Sir W. Scott.

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