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HOI 7 LISTON, a townfliip of the American States, in 
Middlefex county, Maflachufetts : twenty-four miles fouth- 
by-weft of Bofton. The firlt fettlements were made here 
in 1710; and in 1724. the town was incorporated by its 
prefent name, in honour of Thomas Hollis of London, 
one of the patrons of Cambridge Univerfity ; and it now 
contains 875 inhabitants. 
HOLL'MAN (Samuel Chriltian), profelfor of philo- 
fophy in the univerfity of Gottingen, born at Stettin in 
1696. After acquiring the principles of literary know¬ 
ledge at Dantzic, he went, in 1718, to the univerfity of 
Wittenburg, where he read leftures, and at Greifswald 
and Jena. In 1734- he was invited to be public profelfor 
of pbilofophy in the univerfity of Gottingen, then jult 
founded'; and on the eftablilhment of the Society of the 
Sciences, he was the firft regular member of the philofo- 
phical clafs. I111784, toeing then in his eighty-eighth year, 
he gave over public leftures, but ftill continued to em¬ 
ploy himfelf on other literary labours till his death, in 
September, 1787, having been profeffor fifty-three years. 
The univerfity of Gottingen was under great obligations 
to this learned man, and with Haller he contributed to 
diffufe throughout Germany a talle for natural pbilofophy 
and natural hiftory. In thefe departments he wrote 1 'eve- 
ral excellent elfays, Which were published in the Tranl- 
aftions of the Royal Societies of Gottingen and of Lon¬ 
don, and in the Gottingen Literary Journal. As a phi- 
lofopher, he diftinguifhed himfelf by various elementary 
works and diflertations, the principal of which are: 1. In- 
fitutiones Philofophica, in vfum Auditorum, Goettin. 1727-1728, 
8vo. 2. Infitutiones Pneumatoldgia E 3 Theologice naturalis , 
1741, 8vo. 3. Philofophhs Rationale five Logica, multum 
auEla & emendata , 1746, 8vo. 4. Pruna Philofophia five 
Metaphyfca, multum auEia & emendata, 1747, 8vo. 5. Pki¬ 
lo fop hi ce naturalh prim ce Line ce, auElius editce, 1749, 8vo. 6. 
Jurifprudentia naturalis primes l.inece, 1751. 7. ColleElio Trac- 
tatuum de fupendo Natures Myflerio Anima hinnana•, fbi ipf 
ignota , 1752, 8vo. 8. Philofophice moralis five Etkices, primes 
Liners, 1768, 8vo. ' » 
HOL'LODALE, a river of Scotland, which runs into 
the North Sea, between the counties of Sutherland and 
Caithnefs, and five miles foutli-eaft from Stratby Head. 
HOL'LOW, adj. [from hole.'] Evacuated: having a 
void fpace within ; not folid.—To view with hollow eye 
and wrinkled brow. Shakefpeare. 
He frets, he fumes, he ffares, he ftamps the ground. 
The hollow tow’rs with clamours ring around. Dry den. 
Noify, like found reverberated from a cavity : 
The fouthern wind, 
Now by his hollow whiffling in the leaves, 
Foretels a tempefl. Shakefpeare. 
Not faithful; not found ; not what one appears,—Who 
in want a hollow friend doth try ? Shakefpeare. 
He feem’d, 
But all was- falfe and hollow. Milton. 
HOL'LOW, f. Cavity; concavity.—I fuppofe there is 
fome vault or hollow, and fome palfage to it. Bacon. 
Himfelf, as in the hollow of Ins hand, 
Holding, obedient to his high command. 
The deep abyfs. Prior. 
Cavern; den ; hole : 
Who art thou, that lately did’fc defeend 
Into this gaping hollow, of the earth? / Shakefpeare. 
Pit.—A fine genius for gardening thought of forming fuch 
an unfightly hollow into lo-agreeable a feene. Addijon. — Any 
opening.br vacuity.—He touched the hollow of his thigh. 
Gen. xxii. 25.:—Palfage; canal.—The little fprings and 
rills are conveyed through little channels into the main 
hollow of the aqueduct. Addifon on Italy. 
To HOL'LOW, v, a. To make hollow 5 to excavate : 
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Trees, rudely hollow'd, did the waves fultain, 
Ere fliips in triumph plow’d the watry plain. Dryden. 
To HOLLOW, v. n. [This is written by negleft pf ety¬ 
mology for holla. See Holla.] To Ihout; to hoot.— I 
pafs for a difaffefted perfon and a murderer, becaufe I do 
not hoot and hollow, and make a noife. Addifon. 
He with his hounds comes hollowing from the liable, 
Makes love with nods, an-d kneels beneath a table. Pope, 
HOL'LOW-HEART'ED, adj. Dilhoneft; infincere ; 
of praftice or lentiment differing from profeflion.—What 
could be expefted from him, but knotty and crooked hol¬ 
low-hearted dealings ? Howel. 
The hollow-hearted, difaffefted, 
And clofe malignants, are detefted. Hudihras. 
HOL'LOW ROOT. See Adoxa and Fumaria. 
HOL'LOWING, J'. The aft of fcoopingout any thing, 
fo as to make it hollow. 
HOL'LOWLY, o.dv. [from hollow.] With- cavities. 
Unfaithfully ; infincerely ; dilhoneftly ; 
O earth, bear witnefs, 
And crown what I profefs with kind event. 
If I fpeak true; if hollowly, invert 
What bell is boaded me to mifehief! Shakefpeare. 
HOL'LOWNESS, f. [from hollow.] Cavity; Hate of be¬ 
ing hollow.—If you throw a Hone or a dart, they give no 
found ; no more do bullets, except they happen to be a 
little hollowed in the caltirig, which kollowr.efs penneth the 
air. Bacon. —Deceit; infincerity ; treachery.—When ex¬ 
perience -fihall have lliown us the hardnefs of moll hearts, 
the hollowncjs of others, and the bafenefs and ingratitude 
of almoil all, we lhall find that a friend is the gift of God, 
and that he only who made hearts, can unite them. South. 
Concave form; 
Nought is there under heav’ns wide kollownejje. 
That moves more deare companion of mind 
Than beautie brought t’unworthi£ wretch'ednefle, 
Through envie’s fnares, or fortune’s freaks unkind. Spenf. 
HOLLS, a lake of Norway, in the diocefe of Agger- 
huus : feventy miles north of Chrilliania. 
HOL'LY, /: in botany, fee Ilex. KNEE HOLLY, fee 
Ruscus. SEA HOLLY, fee Eryngium. 
HOL'LYHOCK, f. in botany. See Alcea. 
HOLLZKIR'CHEN, a town of Germany, in Franco¬ 
nia, and county of Wertheim : nine miles eall of Wer- 
theim, and fourteen fouth-weft of Wurzburg. 
HOLM, [Sax. hulmus, infula amnica ,] denotes an ille or 
fenny ground, according to Bede ; or a river-ifiand. And 
where any place is called by that name, and this lyllable 
is joined with any other in the names of places, it figni- 
fies a place furrounded with water; as the Faltholmes and 
Stepholmes in the Severn near Brillol; but, if'the fituation 
of the place is not near the water, it may then iignify a 
hilly place; holm, in Saxon, fignifying alio a hill, or cliff. 
HOLM, one of the fmaller Orkney iflands: half a mile 
eall of Wellra. 
HOLM, cne of the fmaller Orkney iflands : one mile 
and a half weft from Eda. 
HOLM, a fmall ifland among the Orkneys, betwen Pa- 
mona and Hoy. 
HOLM ABBY, or Holm’s Cultram, a fmall town in 
the county of Cumberland, iituated on the fide of an aim 
of the fea, with a market on Saturdays : twenty-feven 
miles nortli-weft of Penrith, and 310 north of London. 
HOLM OAK,/, in botany. See Quercus. 
HOLM, SEA, f. in botany. See Eryingium. 
HOLM'ESTRAND, ,a town of Norway, in the province 
of Aggerhuus : thirty miles fouth of Chrilliania. Lat. 
59. 30. N. Ion. 10. 30. E. Greenwich. 
HOLMS, two fmall iflands of Scotland, among the Ork¬ 
neys, about a mile fouth from the ifland of Sanda. 
HOLMSKIOL'DIA,/! in botany, a genus of the clafs. 
didynamia, order angiofpermia. The elfential generic 
charafters 
