a. [ OE. holow, holgh, holf, AS. holh a hollow, hole. Cf. Hole. ]
Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8. [ 1913 Webster ]
With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hollow newel (Arch.),
Hollow quoin (Engin.),
Hollow root. (Bot.)
Hollow square.
Hollow ware,
n.
Forests grew
Upon the barren hollows. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]
I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all;
The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]
interj. [ See Hollo. ] Hollo. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To shout; to hollo. [ 1913 Webster ]
Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To urge or call by shouting. [ 1913 Webster ]
He has hollowed the hounds. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. having a cavity within;
a. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.
a. (Zool.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle. [ 1913 Webster ]