HOL'LOW, a. 1. Containing an empty space, natural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; as a hollow tree; a hollow rock; a hollow sphere. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex.27.2. Sunk deep in the orbit; as a hollow eye.3. Deep; low; resembling sound reverberated from a cavity, or designating such a sound; as a hollow roar.4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as a hollow heart; a hollow friend.Hollow spar, the mineral called also chiastolite. HOL'LOW, n. A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as the hollow of the hand. 1. A place excavated; as the hollow of a tree.2. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing.3. A pit.4. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal.HOL'LOW, v.t. To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. Trees rudely hollowed did the waves sustain.HOL'LOW, v.i. To shout. [See Holla and Hollo.]
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