hollo 
der to call attention, or in answer to some one 
who hails, or in play, or as an expression of 
pain. [Not common in literature.] 
Then he slngeth, as we use here in England to hoUoir, 
whoope or shout at Uoundes. and the rest of the compa- 
nie answere him. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 432. 
I could have kept a hawk, and well have hollmr'il 
To a deep crie of dogs. 
Fletcher (and another), Two Noble Kinsmen, ii. r.. 
II. trans. To urge or call by shouting. 
He has hollowed the hounds upon a velvet headed knob- 
bier. Scott. 
hollo (hol'6), 11. [< hollo, interj. and v.~] The 
cry "Hollo!" 
The albatross did follow, 
And every day, for food or play, 
Came to the mariners' hotto. 
Coleridge, Ancient Mariner, i. 
holloa, interj. and v. Same as hotto. 
liollockt, n. [Origin not ascertained.] A kind 
of sweet wine, aalliwell. 
The Emperours present was deliuered to a gentleman 
at Vologda, and the sled did ouerthrow, and the but 1 1- of 
Hottocke was lost, which made vs all very sory. 
Uakluyt's Voyaget, I. 266. 
hollow 1 (hol'6). n. and a. [I. n. < ME. holg. 
holh (the rarer hoi, hole, E. hole, being the usual 
noun), < AS. holh, holg, a hollow, cavity, hole ; 
appar. a derivative (with an unusual formative 
-h) of hoi, a., hollow, of which in mod. E. hol- 
low has taken the place: see II., and hole 1 . II. 
a. < ME. holow, holwe, holw, holu, holgh, hol%, 
holh, hollow, taking the place of the rarer adj. 
hoi, hollow, in form according to the noun holg, 
holh, < AS. holh, holg, n., a hollow (not used as 
an adj.): seel.] I. n. 1. A cavity; a depres- 
sion or an excavation below the general level, 
as of the ground, or in the substance of any- 
thing; an empty space in anything; a con- 
cavity. 
Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his 
hand? Isa. xl. 12. 
I heard myself proclaim'd ; 
And, by the happy hollow of a tree, 
Escap'd the hunt. Shak., Lear, ii. 3. 
I suppose there is some vault or hollow, or isle, behind 
the wall, and some passage to it. Bacon, Nat. Hist. 
A hazelwood . . . nourishes 
Green in a cuplike hollow of the down. 
Tennyson, Enoch Arden. 
2. Specifically, a concave space of ground; a 
piece or tract of land lower than the general 
level, or hemmed in by hills: used in many 
place-names in the United States: as, Sleepy 
Hollow in New York. 3. A concave plane 
used in working moldings. 4. A strip of thick 
paper or of pasteboard cut to the exact height 
and thickness required for a book for which the 
boards and cloth are intended, and which acts 
as a gage for the guidance of the case-makers, 
and as a stiffencr for the cloth at the back of 
the book between the boards. Ure, Diet., 1. 421. 
Hollows and rounds, wheel- teeth set out or described 
by semicircles swept alternately without and within the 
pitch-line, their centers being on the pitch-line. 
II. a. 1. Having a cavity within ; having an 
empty space in the interior : as, a hollow tree ; 
a hollow rock; a hollow sphere. 
Hollow with boards shall thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8. 
Hollow measures for wine, beer, corn, salt, &c., are called 
measures of capacity. Kersey, 1708. 
As o'er the hollow vaults we walk, 
A hundred echoes round us talk. 
Addison, Rosamond, i. 1. 
But still the dingle's hollow throat 
Prolonged the swelling bugle-note. 
Scott, L. of the L., i. 10. 
2. Having a concavity; concave; sunken: as, 
a hollow way or road. 
Within the hollow crown 
That rounds the mortal temples of a king. 
Shale., Rich. II., iii. 2. 
A full eye will wax hollow. Shak., Hen. V., T. 2. 
I love not hollow cheek or faded eye. 
Tennyson, Princess, vi. (song). 
3. Resembling sound reverberated from a cav- 
ity, or producing such a sound ; deep ; low. 
Thence issued such a blast and hollow roar 
As threaten'd from the hinge to heave the door. 
Dryden, Pal. and Arc., ii. 560. 
The traveller 
Hears from the humble valley where he rides 
The hollow murmurs of the winds that blow 
Amidst the boughs. Addition, .-Kin-id, iii. 
4. Empty; without contents; hence, without 
pith or substance; fruitless; worthless: as, a 
hollow victory ; a hollow argument. 
As Jealous as Ford, that searched a hollow walnut for his 
wife's leman. Shak., II. W. of W., iv. 2. 
The Princess Ida seemed a hollow show. 
Tennyson, Princess, iii. 
Hollow Bricks. 
A, an English form ; B, C,D, 
examples from New York build- 
ings. 
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5. Not sincere or faithful ; false; deceitful; not 
sound : as, a hollow heart. 
Upon my soul, two reverend cardinal virtues ; 
But cardinal sins, and hollow hearts, I fear ye ! 
Shak., Hen. VIII., iii. 1. 
Trust not this hollow world ; she's empty : hark, she 
sounds. tjuarles, Emblems, ii. 10. 
Talk about the weather and other well-bred topics is 
apt to seem a hollow device. 
George Eliot, Middleman*, I. 292. 
6. Void of meaning or truth ; empty ; baseless : 
as, hollow oaths ; a hollow mockery. 
Thy dear love sworn [is] but hollow perjury. 
Shak., R. and J., iii. 3. 
7. Thorough; complete; out-and-out. [Slang.] 
I have therefore taken a ouse in that locality, which, 
, In the opinion of my friends, is a hollow bargain (taxes 
ridiculous, and use of fixtures Included in the rent). 
Dickens, Bleak House, Ixiv. 
8. Having, as wool, the fibers torn apart, so 
that it is light and open Hollow adz, blow, 
fire, etc. See the nouns. 
Hollow brick, in building, 
a brick or tile made hollow, 
or pierced with a series of 
holes placed side by side, used 
in vaulting or other masonry 
where lightness is desirable 
without appreciable sacrifice 
of strength. Such bricks are 
commonly molded to appro- 
priate decorative or construc- 
tive forms. Hollow mus- 
cles. See muscle. Hollow 
spar. Same as hohlspath. 
Hollow square, wall, etc. 
See the nouns. =Syn. 1. Emp- 
ty, void, cavernous. 0. Faith- 
less, Insincere, treacherous, hypocritical. 
hollow 1 (hol'6), v. t. [< hollow 1 , n. and a. The 
older verb is hole 1 ."] 1. To make hollow; ex- 
cavate; make empty. 
Some lonely elm, 
That age or injury has hollow'd deep. 
Cowper, Task, vi. 811. 
We sat together and alone. 
And to the want, that hollow'd all the heart, 
Gave utterance by the yearning of an eye. 
Tennyson, Love and Duty. 
2. To bend into a curved or concave form. 
Hollow your body more, sir, thus. Now stand fast o' your 
left leg, note your distance, keep your due proportion of 
time. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 6. 
Hollowing one hand against his ear, 
To list a footfall, . . . stay'd the Ausonian king. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
Hollowing and backing machine, in cooperage, a ma- 
chine for shaping staves, giving the required convexity to 
the outer and the corresponding concavity to the inner 
faces. 
hollow 1 (hol'6), adv. [< hollow^, a.] Beyond 
doubt or question; utterly; completely; out- 
and-out: often with all for emphasis: as, he 
beat him hollow, or all hollow; he carried it hol- 
low. [Colloq.] 
Wildfire reached the post, and Squire Burton won the 
match hollow. Mist Edgeworth, Patronage, iii. 
He had offered to race with him for a bowl of punch, 
and should have won it too, for Daredevil beat the goblin 
horse all hollow, but, just as they came to the church- 
bridge, the Hessian bolted, and vanished in a flash of fire. 
Irving, Sketch-Book, p. 445. 
hollow 2 (hol'6), inter;', and v. Avariant of hollo. 
hollow-billed (hol'6-bild), a. Having a bill 
appearing inflated and as if hollowed out : used 
specifically in the phrase hollow-billed coot, a 
local name in the United States of the surf- 
scoter, (Edemia perspicillata, and of the black 
scoter, (E. americana. 
hollow-eyed (hol'6-Id), a. Having sunken eyes. 
A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, 
A living dead man. Shak., C. of E., v. 1. 
Hollow-ey'd Abstinence and lean Despair. 
Cowper, Hope, L 68. 
hollowhead (hol'6-hed), . The black-bellied 
plover, Squatarola helvetica. G. Trumbull. [Lo- 
cal, U. 87] 
hollow-hearted (hd'o-har'ted), a. Insincere ; 
deceitful ; not sound or true. 
To our shores 
Throng many doubtful hollow-hearted friends. 
Shak., Rich. III., iv. 4. 
The hollow-hearted, disaffected, 
And close malignants are detected. 
S. Butler, Hudibras, III. ii. 653. 
hollow-horn (hol'6-h6rn),. A disease of cat- 
tle, resulting in loss of the internal substance 
or core of the horn. 
hollow-horned (hol'6-hornd), a. Having hol- 
low horns, non-deciduous, borne upon a bony 
core of the frontal bone ; cavicorn : applied to 
typical ruminants, as the ox, sheep, etc. 
hollowly (hol'o-li), adv. [< hollow* + -ly?.] In 
a hollow manner; insincerely; deceitfully. 
holly 
Crown what I profess with kind event 
If I speak true ; if hollowly, invert 
What best is boded me to mischief ! 
Shak., Tempest, Iii. 1. 
hollow-meat (hol'6-met), n. The meat of 
fowls, rabbits, and other small animals, dressed, 
and sold whole, and not in pieces : opposed to 
butchers' meat. Also called hollow^ware. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
hollowness (hol'o-nes), n. [< hollow 1 + -ness.'] 
1. The state of being hollow; cavity; depres- 
sion of surface ; excavation. 
Earth's hollotmest, which the world's lungs are, 
Have no more wind than the upper vault of air. 
Donne, The Calm. 
2. Emptiness; insincerity; deceitfulness ; 
treachery. 
Machinations, hollownrss, treachery, and all ruinous 
disorders, follow us disquletly to our graves ! 
Shak., Lear, 1. 2. 
The hardness of most hearts, the holloimess of others, 
and the baseness and ingratitude of almost all. 
South, Sermons. 
The controversies of bygone centuries ring with a strange 
hollownens on the ear. Lecky, Rationalism, I. 200. 
hollow-plane (hpl'6-plan), n. [< hollow^, n., + 
plane."] A molding-plane with a convex or con- 
cave sole. 
hollowroot (hol'6-r8t), . A plant, Adoxn 
Moschatellina, of the natural order Caprifolia- 
cetB. 
hollow-stock (hol'6-stok), n. A name given to 
the plants Leonotis nepetarfolia and Malvastrum 
spicatum. 
hollow-toned (hol'6-tond), a. Having, a tone 
or sound like that coming from a cavity; deep- 
toned. 
hollow-ware (hol'6-war), n. Same as hollow- 
meat. 
hollowwort (hol'6-wert), n. A succulent plant 
with pink flowers, Corydalis cava, related to the 
fumitory. Also holewort. 
holly 1 (nol'i), n. [< ME. holly, holy, holie; a 
var. of earlier holin, holyn, > E. hollen, now 
only in dial, use: see hollen and Aofrw 2 .] 1. A 
plant of the genus Ilex, natural order Ilicinea;. 
American Holly (Ilexofaca). a, b, female and male flowers. 
/. Aquifolium, the common European holly, of which 
there are many varieties, grows to the height of from 20 
to 30 feet ; the stem by age becomes large, and is covered 
with a smooth grayish bark, and set with branches which 
form a sort of cone. The leaves are oblong-oval, of a lucid 
green on the upper surface, but pale on the under surface ; 
the edges are indented and waved, with sharp thorns ter- 
minating the points. The flowers grow in clusters, and 
are succeeded by roundish berries, which turn to a beau- 
tiful red about the end of September. This plant is a 
handsome evergreen, and excellently adapted for hedges 
and fences, since it bears clipping. The wood is hard and 
white, and is much employed for turnery-work, for draw- 
ing upon, for knife-handles, etc. Of the bark bird-lime is 
made by maceration. Houses and churches are adorned 
with the leaves and berries at Christmas. The American 
holly, /. opaca, is also an evergreen tree, reaching in some 
instances a height of 46 feet and a diameter of 4 feet. It 
is similar to the European holly, from which it differs in 
having less glossy deep-green foliage, less bright red ber- 
ries, and the nutlets not so veiny. It is distributed gen- 
erally from Massachusetts south, and west to the valley 
of the Colorado river, attaining its greatest development 
in the rich bottoms of Arkansas and eastern Texas. The 
wood is of the highest class for interior finish and turnery. 
The Dahoon holly, /. Dahoon, a smaller and less valuable 
tree than /. opaca, is a native of the southern United States. 
The California holly is Heteromeles arbutifolia. 
Heigh ho ! sing heigh ho ! unto the green holly. 
Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7 (song). 
When the bare and wintry woods we see, 
What then so cheerful as the holly tree? 
Southey, The Holly Tree. 
With trembling fingers did we weave 
The holly round the Christmas hearth. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, xxx. 
2. The holm-oak, Quercus Hex, an evergreen 
oak. Often called holly-oal; Knee-holly, the 
butcher's-broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Sea-holly, a plant, 
Eryngium maritimum. Smooth holly. See Bedycarya. 
