Definition of hollow
- a. - 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.
- a. - Depressed; concave; gaunt; sunken.
- a. - Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound;
deep; muffled; as, a hollow roar.
- a. - Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a
hollow heart; a hollow friend.
- 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.
- n. - A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a
surface; a concavity; a channel.
- v. t. - To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to
excavate.
- 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.
- interj. - Hollo.
- v. i. - To shout; to hollo.
- v. t. - To urge or call by shouting.