Hollow

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To urge or call by shouting.

II. Hollow ·interj Hollo.

III. Hollow ·adj Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.

IV. Hollow ·vi To Shout; to Hollo.

V. Hollow ·adj Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.

VI. Hollow ·vt To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to Excavate.

VII. Hollow ·adj Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow heart; a hollow friend.

VIII. Hollow ·noun A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

IX. Hollow ·noun 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.

X. 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

XI. Hollow ·adj 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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