hollown.

Brit.

/ˈhɒləʊ/, U.S.

/ˈhɑloʊ/

Forms: Old English–Middle English holh, Middle English holȝ, 1500s– holow, hollow.

Etymology: Old English holh (compare Old High German huliwa , hulwa , Middle High German hülwe , pool, puddle, slough) < Old Germanic *holhwo-, apparently radically related to Old English hol , holl adj., hole n., and holc , holk n., cavity; but the nature of the formation is obscure. As shown under hole n., hollow represents an inflection of holh , *holw-e , *holw-es , etc., whence Middle English holwe , holewe , holowe , while the inflectional type *hol-e , *hol-es , etc., fell together with hole n.Old English holh was only noun; it was perhaps from association with hol , which was both adjective and noun, that holh was also made an adjective in early Middle English: see hollow adj. But the history is peculiar, for while the noun came down to 1205, in Middle English only the adjective occurs; the noun reappears c1550, apparently formed anew from the adjective; from which time both noun and adjective have been in common use.

1. A hollow or concave formation or place, which has been dug out, or has the form of having so been: †(a) a hole, cave, den, burrow (obsolete); †(b) a hole running through the length or thickness of anything; a bore (obsolete); (c) a surface concavity, more or less deep, an excavation, a depression on any surface; (d) an internal cavity (with or without an orifice); a void space; (e) (see quot. 1940 at β. ).

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun]

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strip or plate of wood or metal

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > a concave surface

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > concave part or object

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow

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α.

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxiii. 218 Holh wæs beboden ðæt sceolde beon on ðæm weobude uppan, forðæm ðæt wind ne meahte ða lac tostencean.

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxv. 240 Ðær se iil hæfde his holh.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 23 Þah an castel beo wel bemoned mid monne and mid wepne, and þer beo analpi holh þat an mon mei crepan in.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10402 [The fox] holȝes [c1300 Otho holes] him wurcheð.

β. In modern English.1560 Bible (Geneva) Gen. xxxii. 25 He touched y^e holow of his thigh, and the holow of Iaakobs thigh was losed.1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 3 It was the Nightingale and not the Larke That pierst the fearfull hollow of thine eare. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 168 By the happie hollow of a tree. 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xl. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 774 The first Indians..had one, and some both of their teats bored thorow, in the hollow wherof..they wear a Reed.1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. viii. 240 If congealed bloud be in the body, and that within the hollow of it.1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 226 An Hollow on the Tooth [of a tool], makes a Round upon the Work; and a Round upon the Tooth makes an Hollow on the Work.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 165 We rested in the hollow of a Rock, where we spent the Night.1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 62 The hollow of the Bones..serves to contain the Marrow.1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 253 A like Iron Pipe, whose hollow were very small.1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 Sometimes the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top~timber is called the top-timber hollow.1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hollow, the bore of a rocket.1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hollow..the empty portion of a bastion... The depression in an anvil-face or fullering.1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif ix. 296 Such places as the hollow of an oak.1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 201 Completely closed hollows or cavities.1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making iii. 26 Many of the best wheels are made with hollows at the roots of the teeth, for here the action of leverage on the tooth induces the greatest stress.1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollows, the inside curves imparted to the otherwise angular parts of castings. They are inserted in order that the crystals of the metal may arrange themselves in the strongest position.1924 J. McC. Wilson Pattern-making iv. 28 In finishing the pattern all the angled corners are filled in either with Angled or Hollowed Fillets... Hollows are used in well-finished work.1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 418/2 Hollows, fillets, or curves of small radius, uniting two surfaces intersecting at an angle.figurative.1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xxi. 271 The empty hollow of an unsatisfied heart.

2. spec. A depression on the earth's surface; a place or tract below the general level or surrounded by heights; a valley, a basin.

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the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > large hollow or basin

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1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 170 All the holowes and valeys there about rebounding with y^e voice of so many thousandes.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 96 Within the inner compasse and hollow of Africke.

1649 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) II. 9 His 6 acre Lot..runneth all along on the brow or top of that Hollow.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 86 A very narrow, but deep, Hollow.

1846 H. Beckely Hist. Vermont 55 The vallies and hollows interspersed among the mountains and hills are generally very fertile.

1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 16 The river then does really occupy a hollow, inclosed on three sides by high ground.

1885 Miss Thackeray Mrs. Dymond 18 Can you make out the sea, Susy? Look, there it is shining in the hollow.

3. The middle or depth (of night or of winter): = (Scottish) howe n. 3b.

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the world > time > period > [noun] > middle of a period

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1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ix. 143 These were Friedrich's last general orders, given in the hollow of the night.

4. Short for hollow meat n. at hollow adj. and adv. Compounds 3b, hollow moulding, hollow-plane n. at hollow adj. and adv. Compounds 3b, hollow square at square n. 9b.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare

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1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Hollow, a Term in Architecture, by which is meant a Concave Molding, being about a Quadrant of a Circle; by some it is called a Casement, by others an Abacus.

1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 11 I learnt to form lines, and hollows, and squares.

1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Hollow, among epicures, means poultry. Nothing but hollow for dinner.

1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 492 Concave and convex planes, called hollows and rounds.

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hollowadj.adv.

Brit.

/ˈhɒləʊ/, U.S.

/ˈhɑloʊ/

Forms: Middle English holh, holeh, holeuh, holu, Middle English holȝ, holewe, Middle English holw(e, Middle English holou, holouȝ, holough, Middle English holowȝ, Middle English–1500s holow(e, Middle English holgh, holuȝe, 1500s hollowe, 1500s– hollow.

Etymology: Middle English holȝ , holeh , also holu , inflected holwe , holewe , identical in form with holh , holȝ , plural holȝes , holwes n.: see hollow n. The development of -lw(e, -low < -lge, -lg, is normal: compare follow, hallow, sallow, etc.

A. adj.

a. Having a hole or cavity inside; having an empty space in the interior; opposed to solid.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective]

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a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1113 An holȝ [v.r. holeh] stoc hwar þu þe miht hude.

c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 202/96 In one holewe weie onder eorþe.

1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 251 And made kynges fourme of bras al holu wyþinne.

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 295 Vnder an holw ok.

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 395 A ȝerde of fir holowȝ wiþ ynne as a pipe.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxi The sterres ben rounde..and ben sadde and sounde, not holough nother hooly in the vtter party.

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2182 Al watȝ holȝ in-with, nobot an olde caue.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Holowe spere, bovrdon.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 190^v The iuyce thrust into a hollow tooth, aswageth the paine.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 567 This was hollow, the other solid.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 833 Blow it thorow hollow canes.

1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 84 In trunks of trees made hollow either by fire or age.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 30 Orellana placed his hands hollow to his mouth, and bellowed out the war-cry used by those savages.

1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 286 (note) Although many species of trees are liable to become hollow, yet none are so perfectly hollowed as the gum tree.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iv. 47 A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.]

b. Having an empty or vacant space beneath.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > beneath

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1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 43 I would raise my foundation..three foot above ground; leaving it hollow underneath for Ventiducts.

1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 124 Alexandria is all hollow under, being an entire Cistern.

1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 136 They..dry and season their Boards..laying them..hollow for the Air to play between them.

1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 28 The floor..was snow, which I knew to be hollow beneath.

†c. Porous or open in texture or composition: the opposite of close, compact, or solid. Obsolete.

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous

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1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xx The tonge towchinge the complexion of the substaunce therof is holowe and full of holes.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 24 Roots and Plants, which otherwise require the lightest and hollowest Mould.

1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 24 'Tis easier..to imitate this Artificial Dust in hollow, than in strong Land.

a. Having a hole, depression, or groove on the surface; depressed below the surrounding surface, sunken, indented; excavated, concave.

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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective]

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave

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incaved-

a1250 Owl & Nightingale 643 Mi nest is holȝ [v.r. holeuh].

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 383 Wes þe wei holh [c1300 Otho holþ] & long.

a1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 2193 The holwe rokkis answerden hire a-gayn.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/2 Holow, as vessellys..concavus.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44 Then must the grounde neither lye hollowe, nor in hilles.

1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 8 The snows..continue undissolv'd in hollow places between the hills.

1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 156 If any part of the Floor prove hollow, they lay a Chip..upon that hollow place, to bear up the Board.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 195 The hollow Edge of the Hook.

1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 4 Mar. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 158 Our way to it was up a hollow lane.

b. Of the eyes, cheeks, etc.

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c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1695 Holȝe were his yȝen.

1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 135 Hys eyen holow, and his nose croked.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 117 A Horse when hee beginnes too bee ould, his temples wax hollowe.

1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 114 With hollow Cheeks, and Eyes black.

1858 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 358 Bess..was rather thinner, and her eyes hollower.

1873 H. W. Longfellow Challenge ix Hollow and haggard faces Look into the lighted hall.

c. Of the sea: having the troughs between the crests of the waves very deep.

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > rough

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1705 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLII. 155 The storm still continuing, so that the seas runne very high and hollow.

1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 19 With a very hard Gale of Wind..and a very deep hollow Sea.

1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 The ship laboured very much in a hollow sea.

1805 Naval Chron. 13 469 The sea was running very hollow.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hollow Sea, the undulation of the waves after a gale; long hollow-jawed sea; ground-swell.

3. Empty, vacant, void; (hence) having an empty stomach, hungry; lean, starved-looking.

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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry

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the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty

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1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 108 So hungri and so holewe.

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 291 He was noght right fat I vndertake But looked holwe and ther to sobrely.

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 20 I will fayre On feld ther oure bestys ar, To looke if thay be holgh or full.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. iii. 75 His coffers sound With hollow pouertie and emptinesse.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 150 As iealous as Ford, that search'd a hollow Wall-nut for his wiues Lemman.

1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. ii. 392 That also is gone; and the hollow Eternities have swallowed it.

1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. i. 21 The strains dissolve into the hollow air.

1899 N.E.D. at Hollow Mod. It must be getting towards dinner-time; I'm feeling pretty hollow.

4. transferred. Of sound: wanting body; not full-toned; ‘sepulchral’.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > hollow

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1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. xliv With broken and hollow playnt.

1583 H. Howard Defensatiue Ep. Ded. Like young babies, they regarde... Rattles that can make a kind of hollow sound.

1633 T. James Strange Voy. 8 It made a hollow..noyse, like an ouer-fall of water.

1798 Anti-Jacobin 9 Apr. 173/2 My voice is hollow as a Ghost's.

1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 175 If only the uneven partials are present..the quality of tone is hollow.

1889 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse (ed. 2) 134 On the brass of the buckler it smote with a hollow ring.

5. figurative. Of persons and things: wanting soundness, solidity, or substance; empty, vain; not answering inwardly to outward appearance; insincere, false.

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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective]

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective]

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a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 24 So many holow hartes, and so dowbyll faces.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 42 To holy a profession, for so hollow a person.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 9 The Northeast winde, Which then blew bitterly against our faces..Did grace our hollow parting with a teare.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 66 It is knowne we were but hollow Friends.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 199 The Kings Army was hollow at the heart.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxix. 203 A false or hollow friendship.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlii. 562 Flattering and hollow words.

1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. v. 209 The governor's pretensions are as hollow as they are improbable.

1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. iii. 225 The hollow truce with the Huguenots in France had..been again succeeded by war.

6. [ < B.: compare sense B. 2] Complete, thorough, out-and-out. colloquial.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute

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fecking1952

raving1954

1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little (ed. 2) i. xvi. 143 'Twas quite a hollow thing; Goliah won the day.

1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife v. iii. 98 So, my Lord, You and I are both distanced—a hollow Thing, dammee.

1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lxiv. 61 Which, in the opinion of my friends, is a hollow bargain.

1894 Times 31 July 11/1 The Prince's cutter steadily left her opponent and gained a very hollow victory.

7. Of a race: feebly contested. Hence of a victory: obtained against feeble competition.

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1876 Coursing Cal. 5 The next course was equally hollow, Death's Flight leading, and winning with any amount in hand.

B. adv.

1. In a hollow manner; with a hollow sound or voice; insincerely. Obsolete except in compounds (see sense A. 3).

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb]

askancesc1450

hollowlya1547

from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561

teeth outward(s)1561

unsincerelya1575

hollow1607

insincerely1625

fictly1677

with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842

phonily1936

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 374 Then hee will cough more hollow.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 90 Lo, how hollow the fiend speakes within him.

2. Thoroughly, completely, out-and-out; also (U.S.) all hollow. colloquial. [The origin of this is obscure, and has excited conjecture from its first appearance in literature.]

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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly

allOE

outlyOE

thwert-outc1175

skerea1225

thoroughc1225

downrightc1275

purec1300

purelyc1300

faira1325

finelyc1330

quitec1330

quitelyc1330

utterlyc1374

outerlya1382

plainlya1382

straighta1387

allutterly1389

starkc1390

oultrelya1393

plata1393

barec1400

outrightc1400

incomparablyc1422

absolutely?a1425

simpliciter?a1425

staringa1425

quitementa1450

properlyc1450

directly1455

merec1475

incomparable1482

preciselyc1503

clean?1515

cleara1522

plain1535

merely1546

stark1553

perfectly1555

right-down1566

simply1574

flat1577

flatly1577

skire1581

plumb1588

dead?1589

rankly1590

stark1593

sheera1600

start1599

handsmooth1600

peremptory1601

sheerly1601

rank1602

utter1619

point-blank1624

proofa1625

peremptorily1626

downrightly1632

right-down1646

solid1651

clever1664

just1668

hollow1671

entirely1673

blank1677

even down1677

cleverly1696

uncomparatively1702

subtly1733

point1762

cussed1779

regularly1789

unqualifiedly1789

irredeemably1790

positively1800

cussedly1802

heart1812

proper1816

slick1818

blankly1822

bang1828

smack1828

pluperfectly1831

unmitigatedly1832

bodaciously1833

unredeemedly1835

out of sight1839

bodacious1845

regular1846

thoroughly1846

ingrainedly1869

muckinga1880

fucking1893

motherless1898

self1907

stone1928

sideways1956

terminally1974

the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through

to the boneOE

through and throughc1225

out and outc1300

from top to tail1303

out and inc1390

(from) head to heel (also heels)c1400

(from) head to foot (also feet)c1425

from top to (into, unto) toec1425

to the skin1526

to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530

from first to last1536

up and down1542

whole out1562

to the pith1587

to the back1594

from A to (also until) Z1612

from clew to earing1627

from top to bottom1666

back and edge1673

all hollow1762

(all) to pieces1788

from A to Za1821

to one's (also the) fingertips1825

to one's fingernails1851

from tip to toe1853

down to the ground1859

to the backbone1864

right the way1867

pur sang1893

from the ground up1895

in and out1895

from soda (card) to hock1902

the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly

all outc1300

out and outc1300

at all devicec1385

to devicec1385

right out?1543

up to the chin1546

up to the eyes1607

upsy Friese1609

up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627

all hollow1762

(immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822

all ends up1850

fair and square1870

right spang1884

to the wide1895

a (also one) hundred per cent1911

1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (at cited word) He carried it Hollow, Luculenter Vicit vel Superavit,..credo dictum quasi ‘he carried it wholy’.

1762 S. Foote Orators i. 6 Foote... You succeeded? Suds... Yes, yes, I got it all hollow.

1768 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2845 He set up for the county of Middlesex, and carried it hollow, as the jockeys say.

1786 J. Wolcot Farewell Odes to Royal Academicians xiv, in Wks. (1794) I. 185 I'm greatly pleas'd..To see the foreigners beat hollow.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 39 Her blood carried it all hollow.

1839 Times 19 Oct. In the article of hypocrisy..as in sheer impudence, Minto has it hollow.

1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. 367 Local opinion would carry it hollow against popular opinion.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 100 She beats us younger people hollow.

Compounds

C1. Qualifying participial adjectives, to which hollow is hyphenated; mostly in sense ‘with a hollow sound’, as hollow-bellowing, hollow-booming, hollow-blustering, hollow-ringing, hollow-sounding, hollow-whispering, etc.; also ‘with a hollow foundation’, as hollow-grounded; hollow-ground adj. ground so as to have a concave surface; so hollow-grinding.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > ground so as to be

hollow-ground1885

1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 128 O feble stay! O hollow-grounded hope!

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 223 The hollow-sounding Plain Shakes from afar.

1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 234 Muttering, the Winds..Blow hollow-blustering from the South.

1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 40 The hollow-whispering Breeze, the Plaint of Rills.

1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 33 The hollower-bellowing ocean.

1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1048 The guaranteed razors. Cases containing 2 Hollow Ground.

1906 W. Watson in Tribune 15 Jan. 2/4 Toll, thou hollow-booming Bell.

1937 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Med. Bacteriol. ii. 10 In carrying out the examination by direct microscopy use is made of the hollow-ground slide, which is a slide with a hollow of approximately ½ in. ground out on one surface.

1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 72 (heading) Hollow-grinding machine.

1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 73 This..will produce a hollow-ground bevel on the cutter. There are a number of reasons why hollow grinding is preferable to straight.

1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 12 Hollow grinding, a method of grinding a tool to produce a concave face or faces behind a cutting edge.

C2.

a. Parasynthetic, as hollow-backed, hollow-billed, hollow-cheeked, hollow-chested, hollow-footed, hollow-horned, hollow-jawed, hollow-toned, hollow-vaulted, hollow-voiced adjs. Also hollow-eyed adj., hollow-hearted adj.

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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxi^v The nyne properties of an asse..the seuenth to be rounde foted, y^e eyght to be holowe foted.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pettoruto,..that is hollow chested.

1603 J. Davies Microcosmos Pref. 23 Breath'd out with grones, like hollow-voiced windes.

a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 409 A shatter'd veteran, hollow-trunk'd perhaps.

1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) iv. 88 Some persons prefer a hollow-backed horse.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxi. 595 ‘Look!’ replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail.

1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 239 The ruminants..called hollow-horned.

1886 W. B. Yeats Mosada 6 Bright-eyed, and hollow-cheeked From fasting.

1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 240 He listened to these hollow-chested verses.

hollow-fronted adj. said of a bullet with a hollow in the point to ensure expansion of the projectile on impact.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot

chained1613

steel-piercing1624

chawed1644

studded1865

soft-nosed1893

hollow-fronted1899

mushroomed1901

hollow-pointed1902

spitzer1905

hollow-nosed1909

1899 Kynoch Jrnl. Oct. 14/2 If the ·577 pure lead hollow-fronted bullet hit a man he knew it at once.

hollow-nosed adj. = hollow-fronted adj.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot

chained1613

steel-piercing1624

chawed1644

studded1865

soft-nosed1893

hollow-fronted1899

mushroomed1901

hollow-pointed1902

spitzer1905

hollow-nosed1909

1909 Daily Chron. 26 June 1/4 The other cartridges..being of nickle steel and hollow-nosed.

1920 G. Burrard Notes on Sporting Rifles 40 A hollow-nosed bullet.

hollow-pointed adj. = hollow-fronted adj.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot

chained1613

steel-piercing1624

chawed1644

studded1865

soft-nosed1893

hollow-fronted1899

mushroomed1901

hollow-pointed1902

spitzer1905

hollow-nosed1909

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 244/1 The hollow-pointed expanding bullet with soft lead nose.

1902 Kynoch Jrnl. Dec. 43/1 Without the mutilation so commonly caused by hollow pointed bullets.

C3. In various collocations, chiefly technical.

hollow block n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > brick or block of

brick1427

breeze-block1923

slab1927

hollow block1964

patio block1969

1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 167 Hollow blocks or hollow tiles. Concrete or burnt clay hollow building blocks are used for making partitions or external walls, or for forming reinforced concrete hollow-tile floors. Lightweight, thermally-insulating, hollow blocks are also made of foamed slag concrete, diatomite, gypsum, etc.

hollow tile n.

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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > other types of tiles

semi-tilea1525

quarrel1601

head1703

travers tile1703

astragal1725

fire tile1798

sole1843

field tile1856

fish-scale tile1881

quarry tile1908

hollow tile1914

tile-and-a-half tile1940

1914 Archit. Rec. Feb. 142/2 Terra cotta hollow tile was employed in the exterior and interior bearing walls.

1914 Archit. Rec. Feb. 144/2 The floor construction used was the combination system of hollow tile and reinforced concrete.

1936 Archit. Rev. 80 144/1 Floors and roofs throughout are hollow tile and concrete, and internal walls in the ward block are of hollow partition blocks.

b. Also hollow square at square n. 9b, hollow-ware n.

hollow-adz n. see hollow-auger n.

hollow-auger n. tools with concave instead of flat face, for curved work (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.).

hollow-bastion n. (see quot. 1706).

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > bastion

bastion1546

jetty1550

pommel1687

demi-bastion1695

moineau1704

hollow-bastion1706

empty bastion1711

roundel1843

bastionet1847

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Bastion Hollow or Voided Bastion, is that which has only a Rampart and a Parapet, ranging about its Flanks and Faces, so that a void Space is left towards the Center or Middle.

hollow-blow n. (see quot. 1888).

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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollow Blows, blows delivered by a hammer upon a substance which is either unsupported, or insufficiently supported by an opposing block.

hollow fire n. (see quot. 1881).

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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 146 Hollow-fire, a kind of hearth with blast, used for reheating the stamps produced in the South Welsh process of fining, or the bars of blister-steel in the manufacture of shear-steel.

hollow fowl n. see hollow meat n.

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare

hollow1823

hollow meat1828

hollow fowl1885

1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) I. 89 People had then to be content with ‘hollow fowl’, as poultry, ducks, and rabbits were alike called.

hollow heart n. a disease of potatoes in which a cavity is formed in the centre of the tuber.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > vegetables > potatoes

spraing1909

hollow heart1926

1926 F. D. Heald Man. Plant Dis. v. 94 Hollow heart is most frequent in potatoes which have been stimulated to an excessive growth by abundant moisture.

1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1655/1 Hollow Heart is usually due to the tubers experiencing a dry period in which they mature and lose water so that when the rain comes the quick growth causes the inner tissues to split apart.

hollow-horn n. U.S. (see quot. 1962).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle

murrainc1450

gall1577

gargyse1577

sprenges1577

wisp1577

closh1587

milting1587

moltlong1587

hammer1600

mallet1600

scurvy1604

wither1648

speed1704

nostril dropping1708

bladdera1722

heartsick1725

throstling1726

striking1776

feather-cling1799

hollow-horn1805

weed1811

blood striking1815

the slows1822

toad-bit1825

coast-fever1840

horn-distemper1843

rat's tail1847

whethering1847

milk fever1860

milt-sickness1867

pearl tumour1872

actinomycosis1877

pearl disease1877

rat-tail1880

lumpy jaw1891

niatism1895

cripple1897

rumenitis1897

Rhodesian fever1903

reticulitis1905

barbone1907

contagious abortion1910

trichomoniasis1915

shipping fever1932

New Forest disease1954

bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987

BSE1987

mad cow disease1988

East Coast fever2009

1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 87 There were a few half-starved cattle; in general standing shaking with cold, and many more complaining of what they call the hollow-horn.

1825 J. Lorain Nature in Pract. Husb. 455 The hollow horn, a disease which seldom fails to attack half-famished cattle.

1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 129 Cattle have few diseases in this locality except the ‘buck eye’ and ‘hollow horn’.

1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West v. 69 I..talked with Uncle Emsley a while about hollow-horn and cyclones.

1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 382/1 Hollow horn, an imaginary disease arising from the erroneous belief that loss of appetite and listlessness in a cow was due to hollow horns. The remedy was supposed to be (a) boring a hole in each horn..(b) filling the cavity with salt, sugar, and pepper, and (c) plugging the hole with a wooden peg. The belief was that if the cow had hollow horn this remedy would cure her, and if she did not have hollow horn, the remedy would prevent her getting it.

hollow meat n. ‘poultry, rabbits, etc., any meat not sold by butchers’ (Halliwell).

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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare

hollow1823

hollow meat1828

hollow fowl1885

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hollow meat, fowls.

hollow-plane n. a plane with a curved sole, used for smoothing concave surfaces.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for curved surfaces

spokeshave1510

hollow-plane1678

round1793

fork-staff-plane1815

howel1846

compass-plane1849

spout plane1855

concave-plane1874

hoop-shave1885

1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 70 Plains in use among Joyners, called Molding plains; as..the Hollow.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1113/1 Hollow-plane, a molding-plane with a convex sole. A round-sole plane.

hollow punch n. a hollow circular chisel-edged punch used for cutting smooth holes in yielding material.

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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. The hollow punch is employed to make holes for rivets in leather..and on other occasions where a smooth, round hole is to be cut out of a yielding material.

hollow quoin n. a recess in the walls at each end of a canal lock, to receive the heel-post of the gate.

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1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. ii. 6 The joint between the heel-post and hollow quoin is made watertight by the gate being..worked backwards and forwards.

hollow roll n. a roll formed by the edges of two sheets of lead or zinc being bent over together.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc.

wind-barge1603

waterbargea1613

barge-course1668

roll1810

valley-board1823

verge-board1827

siding1829

barge-board1833

verge1833

verge-boarding1835

parge-board1840

snowboard1876

hollow roll1904

1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 288/2 Hollow roll, a lead roll made by bending over the edges of sheet lead, and so forming a tube.

1960 B.S.I. News May 23 Guidance on the use of lead sheet used as a covering for roofs... Design methods for both the woodroll and hollow-roll systems.

hollow-set n. a smith's gouge for curved work.

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1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollow Set, a smith's gouge, used for dressing off the circular portions of forged work.

hollow spar n. [translating German hohlspat] (a name for) chiastolite n. (Ure Dict. Chem. 1823).

hollow spun adj. (see quot. 1927).

ΚΠ

1927 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 5 The concrete posts are hollow-spun, the concrete being poured into a hollow mould and spun into shape.

hollow-stock n. name of the plants Leonotis nepetaefolia and Malvastrum spicatum ( Cent. Dict.).

hollow tower n. (see quot. 1706).

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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > bastion > other works connected with bastions

redoubta1608

retired flank1691

hollow tower1706

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Tower Hollow Tower (in Fortif.), a Rounding made of the remainder of two Brisures, to joyn the Courtin to the Orillon; where the Small-Shot are plac'd that they may not be too much expos'd to the Enemies View.

hollow-turner n. a mechanic who turns hollow or concave vessels, funnels, etc.

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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with lathe

turner1415

hollow-turner1887

traverser1921

lathe operator1974

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. 243 Peeping out she saw..the hollow-turner..loading his wares—wooden bowls, dishes, spigots, spoons, cheese-vats, funnels and so on.

hollow-turnery n.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > vessels made by hollow turner

hollow-turnery1887

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. 56 A neighbour engaged in the hollow-turnery trade.

† hollow vein n. Obsolete the vena cava.

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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein

middle veina1398

portaa1398

saphena1398

funisa1400

sciaticaa1400

guidesc1400

haemorrhoidc1400

salvatellac1400

liver veina1425

median?a1425

mesaraic?a1425

sciatic?a1425

venal artery?a1425

sciat1503

organal vein1523

axillar?1541

weeping vein1543

port-vein1586

lip-vein1598

nose vein1598

sciatic vein1598

cephalic vein1599

hollow vein1605

jugular1615

scapulary1615

subclavian vein1615

umbilical vessel1615

basilica1625

porter-vein1625

neck vein1639

garter-vein1656

matricious vein1656

sacred vein1656

subclavicular1656

subclavial1664

vertebral1718

portal vein1765

cava1809

satellite vein1809

brachial1859

innominate vein1866

precaval1866

postcava1882

precava1882

postcaval1891

Vesalian vein1891

sciatic1892

subcardinal1902

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 215 Through branching pipes of the great Hollow vaine.

1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 105 Through the mesaraicke veines into the great porter veine, and from thence into the great hollow veine.

hollow wall n. = cavity wall n. at cavity n. 4.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall

sidewall1381

brick wall1465

outwall1535

parpen1591

parapet1598

inwall?1611

breastwork1673

parapet wall1682

dwarf1718

screen1761

screen wall1770

hollow wall1823

alure1853

curtain wall1859

core-wall1899

blank wall1904

1823 New Pract. Builder & Workman's Compan. 586/2 Hollow-wall, a wall built in two thicknesses, leaving a cavity between, which may be either for saving materials or for preserving an uniform temperature in apartments.

1891 Notes Building Constr. (rev. ed.) II. 10 The hollow wall is often arranged to begin on the damp-proof course.

1942 J. A. Mulligan Handbk. Brick Masonry Constr. 362 The building code of the City of New York uses the term ‘hollow wall’ instead of cavity wall.

hollow-way n. (also holloway) a way, road, or path, through a defile or cutting; also extended, as in quot. 1882.

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society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > cut through a wood or rock

trenchc1405

holleway?a1500

path1548

cut1730

hollow-way1765

score1790

shute1879

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 72 Acquainted intimately with every country.., the roads, and hollow ways which lead up to them.

1882 D. Gardner Quatre Bras, Ligny, & Waterloo 182 (note) The term ‘hollow-way’ is employed by English writers on this battle [Waterloo]..to designate any means of passage, from a footpath to a boulevard, which is enclosed on the sides to a considerable height, whether by walls, fences, hedges, houses, or embankments.

Draft additions September 2016

hollow leg n. colloquial and humorous (often in plural) the ability or capacity to consume an unusually large amount of food or (alcoholic) drink, esp. without apparent adverse effects; frequently in to have (a) hollow leg(s).

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1883 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 31 Jan. 8/4 ‘That fellow has hollow legs!’..‘This young man will wake up..with a very uncomfortable stomach. A quart of..water is more than the usual capacity.’

1939 Gippsland (Victoria) Times 23 Jan. 8/3 (in comic strip) Give Blue plenty [of food] mum, he's got hollow legs y'know!

1964 S. Michaels Dylan i. 28 I can outlast any camp follower alive on the round of bars every night. I'm famous for my hollow leg.

1987 Today's Health Apr. 13/1 Adolescent boys seem to have a hollow leg.

2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) i. xvii. 181 A couple of glasses of wine and you're wobbling like a blancmange. I thought you detectives all had hollow legs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	hollow
释义	hollown. Brit. /ˈhɒləʊ/, U.S. /ˈhɑloʊ/ Forms: Old English–Middle English holh, Middle English holȝ, 1500s– holow, hollow. Etymology: Old English holh (compare Old High German huliwa , hulwa , Middle High German hülwe , pool, puddle, slough) < Old Germanic holhwo-, apparently radically related to Old English hol* , holl adj., hole n., and holc , holk n., cavity; but the nature of the formation is obscure. As shown under hole n., hollow represents an inflection of holh , holw-e , holw-es , etc., whence Middle English holwe , holewe , holowe , while the inflectional type hol-e , hol-es , etc., fell together with hole n.Old English holh was only noun; it was perhaps from association with hol , which was both adjective and noun, that holh was also made an adjective in early Middle English: see hollow adj. But the history is peculiar, for while the noun came down to 1205, in Middle English only the adjective occurs; the noun reappears c1550, apparently formed anew from the adjective; from which time both noun and adjective have been in common use. 1. A hollow or concave formation or place, which has been dug out, or has the form of having so been: †(a) a hole, cave, den, burrow (obsolete); †(b) a hole running through the length or thickness of anything; a bore (obsolete); (c) a surface concavity, more or less deep, an excavation, a depression on any surface; (d) an internal cavity (with or without an orifice); a void space; (e) (see quot. 1940 at β. ). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hole or pit > [noun] dalea800 piteOE dike847 hollowc897 hole946 seathc950 delfOE hollc1050 ditchc1275 lakec1320 holetc1380 slacka1500 dell1531 vault1535 pit-hole1583 delve1590 lough1672 sinusa1676 gap1696 self-lough1700 scoop1780 cup1819 the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > a hole bored, pierced, or perforated hollowc897 borec1320 piercing?c1400 perforation?a1425 broach1519 pertusion1626 ear-piercing1896 society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strip or plate of wood or metal hollowc897 strop1573 strap1588 shin1747 strap iron1833 stirrup-iron1838 fish1847 fish-bar1872 welt1874 mirror plate1940 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > a concave surface hollowc897 concavity1483 concave1554 belly1607 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > concave part or object hollowc897 bowla1398 pan1611 shoulder1618 wamea1765 scooping1862 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > action of making indentation > an indentation on a surface hollowc897 printa1387 impression1398 puncha1430 dent1565 dint1590 dinge1611 doke1615 impressurea1616 depressure1626 depression1665 dawk1678 swage1680 indent1690 sinking1712 dunkle1788 indenture1793 delve1811 subsidation1838 indention1839 recess1839 indentation1847 incavation1852 deepening1859 sink1875 malleation1881 ding1922 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > a cavity or hollow hollowc897 wombOE holkc1000 dalkc1325 hollownessc1374 spaciosity?a1425 pitc1480 concavitya1513 doupa1522 capacity?1541 cavity?1541 concave?1541 vacuation?1541 vacuity?1541 sound1603 cave1605 ferme1612 ventriclea1631 core1663 want1664 uterus1692 excavation1781 hog trough1807 α. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxiii. 218 Holh wæs beboden ðæt sceolde beon on ðæm weobude uppan, forðæm ðæt wind ne meahte ða lac tostencean. c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxv. 240 Ðær se iil hæfde his holh. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 23 Þah an castel beo wel bemoned mid monne and mid wepne, and þer beo analpi holh þat an mon mei crepan in. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 10402 [The fox] holȝes [c1300 Otho holes] him wurcheð. β. In modern English.1560 Bible (Geneva) Gen. xxxii. 25 He touched y^e holow of his thigh, and the holow of Iaakobs thigh was losed.1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. v. 3 It was the Nightingale and not the Larke That pierst the fearfull hollow of thine eare. View more context for this quotation1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear vii. 168 By the happie hollow of a tree. View more context for this quotation1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xl. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? View more context for this quotation1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 774 The first Indians..had one, and some both of their teats bored thorow, in the hollow wherof..they wear a Reed.1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. viii. 240 If congealed bloud be in the body, and that within the hollow of it.1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 226 An Hollow on the Tooth [of a tool], makes a Round upon the Work; and a Round upon the Tooth makes an Hollow on the Work.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 165 We rested in the hollow of a Rock, where we spent the Night.1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 62 The hollow of the Bones..serves to contain the Marrow.1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 253 A like Iron Pipe, whose hollow were very small.1850 J. Greenwood Sailor's Sea-bk. 124 Sometimes the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top~timber is called the top-timber hollow.1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hollow, the bore of a rocket.1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hollow..the empty portion of a bastion... The depression in an anvil-face or fullering.1884 A. R. Pennington Wiclif ix. 296 Such places as the hollow of an oak.1884 F. O. Bower & D. H. Scott tr. H. A. de Bary Compar. Anat. Phanerogams & Ferns 201 Completely closed hollows or cavities.1885 J. G. Horner Pattern Making iii. 26 Many of the best wheels are made with hollows at the roots of the teeth, for here the action of leverage on the tooth induces the greatest stress.1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollows, the inside curves imparted to the otherwise angular parts of castings. They are inserted in order that the crystals of the metal may arrange themselves in the strongest position.1924 J. McC. Wilson Pattern-making iv. 28 In finishing the pattern all the angled corners are filled in either with Angled or Hollowed Fillets... Hollows are used in well-finished work.1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 418/2 Hollows, fillets, or curves of small radius, uniting two surfaces intersecting at an angle.figurative.1853 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xxi. 271 The empty hollow of an unsatisfied heart. 2. spec. A depression on the earth's surface; a place or tract below the general level or surrounded by heights; a valley, a basin. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > low land > hollow or depression > [noun] > large hollow or basin hollow1553 howe1584 lake-basin1833 bolson1838 basinc1854 terr-oceanic basin1859 bowl1860 torsion-basin1899 cuvette1907 foredeep1909 1553 J. Brende tr. Q. Curtius Rufus Hist. viii. f. 170 All the holowes and valeys there about rebounding with y^e voice of so many thousandes. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 96 Within the inner compasse and hollow of Africke. 1649 in Early Rec. Town of Providence (Rhode Island) (1893) II. 9 His 6 acre Lot..runneth all along on the brow or top of that Hollow. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 86 A very narrow, but deep, Hollow. 1846 H. Beckely Hist. Vermont 55 The vallies and hollows interspersed among the mountains and hills are generally very fertile. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 16 The river then does really occupy a hollow, inclosed on three sides by high ground. 1885 Miss Thackeray Mrs. Dymond 18 Can you make out the sea, Susy? Look, there it is shining in the hollow. 3. The middle or depth (of night or of winter): = (Scottish) howe n. 3b. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > [noun] > middle of a period midtime1418 heart1523 holla1525 deep1530 waist1604 depth1605 full1658 howe1818 hollow1864 inside1890 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ix. 143 These were Friedrich's last general orders, given in the hollow of the night. 4. Short for hollow meat n. at hollow adj. and adv. Compounds 3b, hollow moulding, hollow-plane n. at hollow adj. and adv. Compounds 3b, hollow square at square n. 9b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > concave moulding casementc1425 cove1511 scotia1563 trochilus1563 casemate1611 cavetto1700 throat1722 hollow1726 the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare hollow1823 hollow meat1828 hollow fowl1885 1726 R. Neve City & Country Purchaser (ed. 2) Hollow, a Term in Architecture, by which is meant a Concave Molding, being about a Quadrant of a Circle; by some it is called a Casement, by others an Abacus. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 11 I learnt to form lines, and hollows, and squares. 1823 P. Egan Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (rev. ed.) Hollow, among epicures, means poultry. Nothing but hollow for dinner. 1850 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. III. 492 Concave and convex planes, called hollows and rounds. Thesaurus » Categories » 5. Bookbinding. A strip of thick paper or paste-board, cut to the height and thickness of the book for which the boards and cloth are intended, and which acts as a gauge for the guidance of the case-makers and as a stiffener for the cloth at the back of the book ( Ure's Dict. Arts (1875) I. 421). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). hollowadj.adv. Brit. /ˈhɒləʊ/, U.S. /ˈhɑloʊ/ Forms: Middle English holh, holeh, holeuh, holu, Middle English holȝ, holewe, Middle English holw(e, Middle English holou, holouȝ, holough, Middle English holowȝ, Middle English–1500s holow(e, Middle English holgh, holuȝe, 1500s hollowe, 1500s– hollow. Etymology: Middle English holȝ , holeh , also holu , inflected holwe , holewe , identical in form with holh , holȝ , plural holȝes , holwes n.: see hollow n. The development of -lw(e, -low < -lge, -lg, is normal: compare follow, hallow, sallow, etc. A. adj. 1. a. Having a hole or cavity inside; having an empty space in the interior; opposed to solid. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] hollc1000 hollowa1250 hollowyc1400 howea1500 kosche1513 cave1540 boss1553 concave?a1560 concavous1578 unkernelled1584 void1597 wombya1616 cavous1698 cavernous1830 cavitary1861 a1250 Owl & Nightingale 1113 An holȝ [v.r. holeh] stoc hwar þu þe miht hude. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 202/96 In one holewe weie onder eorþe. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 251 And made kynges fourme of bras al holu wyþinne. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 295 Vnder an holw ok. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 395 A ȝerde of fir holowȝ wiþ ynne as a pipe. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxi The sterres ben rounde..and ben sadde and sounde, not holough nother hooly in the vtter party. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2182 Al watȝ holȝ in-with, nobot an olde caue. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 232/1 Holowe spere, bovrdon. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iv. f. 190^v The iuyce thrust into a hollow tooth, aswageth the paine. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 567 This was hollow, the other solid. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 833 Blow it thorow hollow canes. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 84 In trunks of trees made hollow either by fire or age. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. iii. 30 Orellana placed his hands hollow to his mouth, and bellowed out the war-cry used by those savages. 1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 286 (note) Although many species of trees are liable to become hollow, yet none are so perfectly hollowed as the gum tree. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. iv. 47 A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.] b. Having an empty or vacant space beneath. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > beneath hollow1657 undercut1793 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 43 I would raise my foundation..three foot above ground; leaving it hollow underneath for Ventiducts. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 124 Alexandria is all hollow under, being an entire Cistern. 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 136 They..dry and season their Boards..laying them..hollow for the Air to play between them. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. iii. 28 The floor..was snow, which I knew to be hollow beneath. †c. Porous or open in texture or composition: the opposite of close, compact, or solid. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > full of holes > porous plummya1398 porousa1398 hollow1398 sponged1398 spongeous1398 porosea1400 spongiousc1400 pory1535 spongy1578 sponge-like1594 lax1615 porish1652 laxy1716 spongiose1755 spongiform1805 spongeoid1822 spongoid1843 polyporous1858 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) iii. xx The tonge towchinge the complexion of the substaunce therof is holowe and full of holes. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 24 Roots and Plants, which otherwise require the lightest and hollowest Mould. 1733 J. Tull Horse-hoing Husbandry vi. 24 'Tis easier..to imitate this Artificial Dust in hollow, than in strong Land. 2. a. Having a hole, depression, or groove on the surface; depressed below the surrounding surface, sunken, indented; excavated, concave. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [adjective] hollowa1250 holkedc1420 howea1500 deep-set1562 depressed1658 depressc1660 sunken1683 recessed1757 sunk1766 niche-like1841 retreating1878 sucken1878 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave hollc1000 hollowa1250 denteda1398 concaved?1541 saddle-backed1545 vaulty1545 concave?a1560 sinuated1578 inboweda1586 inbowing1603 inwinding1610 hollowed1613 crusy1625 simous1634 invex1688 scooped1726 depressed1753 hollowed-out1755 scooping1821 shell1823 welled1848 concaving1871 incaved- a1250 Owl & Nightingale 643 Mi nest is holȝ [v.r. holeuh]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 383 Wes þe wei holh [c1300 Otho holþ] & long. a1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Ariadne. 2193 The holwe rokkis answerden hire a-gayn. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 242/2 Holow, as vessellys..concavus. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 44 Then must the grounde neither lye hollowe, nor in hilles. 1674 A. Cremer tr. J. Scheffer Hist. Lapland 8 The snows..continue undissolv'd in hollow places between the hills. 1679 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. ix. 156 If any part of the Floor prove hollow, they lay a Chip..upon that hollow place, to bear up the Board. 1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 195 The hollow Edge of the Hook. 1855 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 4 Mar. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 158 Our way to it was up a hollow lane. b. Of the eyes, cheeks, etc. ΚΠ c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1695 Holȝe were his yȝen. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxix. 135 Hys eyen holow, and his nose croked. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 117 A Horse when hee beginnes too bee ould, his temples wax hollowe. 1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 114 With hollow Cheeks, and Eyes black. 1858 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 358 Bess..was rather thinner, and her eyes hollower. 1873 H. W. Longfellow Challenge ix Hollow and haggard faces Look into the lighted hall. c. Of the sea: having the troughs between the crests of the waves very deep. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > state of sea > [adjective] > rough woodc900 drofc1000 bremea1300 scaldinga1300 sharp1377 wrothc1400 welteringc1420 rude?a1439 wawishc1450 wallya1522 robustuousa1544 troublesome1560 turbulent1573 boisterous?1594 lofty1600 enridged1608 hollow1705 ugly1744 testy1833 topping1857 seething1871 troughy1877 1705 Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. XLII. 155 The storm still continuing, so that the seas runne very high and hollow. 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 19 With a very hard Gale of Wind..and a very deep hollow Sea. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson i. x. 104 The ship laboured very much in a hollow sea. 1805 Naval Chron. 13 469 The sea was running very hollow. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Hollow Sea, the undulation of the waves after a gale; long hollow-jawed sea; ground-swell. 3. Empty, vacant, void; (hence) having an empty stomach, hungry; lean, starved-looking. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > [adjective] > hungry hungryc950 hungering971 hollow1362 eagera1475 empty?1490 ahungrya1500 sharp-set1540 greedlya1546 anhungry1578 starveling1578 belly-pinched1608 mad-hungry1608 jejunea1620 sharp-bent1675 sharp1678 nithered1691 peckish1714 stomach-tight1718 yap1768 yaupish1789 picksome1847 the world > space > place > absence > fact of being unoccupied > [adjective] > empty idlec825 toomOE lankc1000 emptyOE leera1250 i-lerc1275 vain1382 void1390 bare1399 vacanta1400 i-voidec1415 hollow1600 vake1600 clear1607 inane1662 blank1748 viduous1855 unchargeda1861 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. v. 108 So hungri and so holewe. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 291 He was noght right fat I vndertake But looked holwe and ther to sobrely. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. ii. 20 I will fayre On feld ther oure bestys ar, To looke if thay be holgh or full. 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. iii. 75 His coffers sound With hollow pouertie and emptinesse. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) iv. ii. 150 As iealous as Ford, that search'd a hollow Wall-nut for his wiues Lemman. View more context for this quotation 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. iv. ii. 392 That also is gone; and the hollow Eternities have swallowed it. 1878 B. Taylor Prince Deukalion i. i. 21 The strains dissolve into the hollow air. 1899 N.E.D. at Hollow Mod. It must be getting towards dinner-time; I'm feeling pretty hollow. 4. transferred. Of sound: wanting body; not full-toned; ‘sepulchral’. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adjective] > hollow hollow1563 amphoric1839 boxy1936 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. xliv With broken and hollow playnt. 1583 H. Howard Defensatiue Ep. Ded. Like young babies, they regarde... Rattles that can make a kind of hollow sound. 1633 T. James Strange Voy. 8 It made a hollow..noyse, like an ouer-fall of water. 1798 Anti-Jacobin 9 Apr. 173/2 My voice is hollow as a Ghost's. 1881 J. Broadhouse Student's Helmholtz 175 If only the uneven partials are present..the quality of tone is hollow. 1889 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse (ed. 2) 134 On the brass of the buckler it smote with a hollow ring. 5. figurative. Of persons and things: wanting soundness, solidity, or substance; empty, vain; not answering inwardly to outward appearance; insincere, false. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] flittingc1374 aerya1398 bottomlessa1413 hollowa1529 flittering1549 wanzing1571 aerial1581 slight1585 flit1590 windy1593 filmy1594 tenuous1597 unsubstantial1597 yeasty1598 thingless1599 airy1600 spare1602 spongy1603 insubstantial1607 baselessa1616 thina1616 insolid1618 insubstantiate1621 tenuious1634 bubble1635 thin-spun1638 subventaneous1646 unsubstanceda1658 whipped1673 aericala1678 huffy1678 blatherya1693 naughty1696 substanceless1784 vapoury1818 aeriform1827 airified1837 blow-away1858 non-substantial1858 unbased1860 evasive1881 stuffless1896 fabricless1905 lighter-than-air1909 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adjective] feignedc1374 unplaina1393 hollowa1529 hollow-hearted1549 foul1550 unsincere1577 insincere1634 unsound1714 lip-deep1802 lip-born1872 phoney1951 pseud1962 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 24 So many holow hartes, and so dowbyll faces. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 42 To holy a profession, for so hollow a person. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iv. 9 The Northeast winde, Which then blew bitterly against our faces..Did grace our hollow parting with a teare. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) iii. ii. 66 It is knowne we were but hollow Friends. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 199 The Kings Army was hollow at the heart. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xxix. 203 A false or hollow friendship. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xlii. 562 Flattering and hollow words. 1832 R. Lander & J. Lander Jrnl. Exped. Niger I. v. 209 The governor's pretensions are as hollow as they are improbable. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic III. v. iii. 225 The hollow truce with the Huguenots in France had..been again succeeded by war. 6. [ < B.: compare sense B. 2] Complete, thorough, out-and-out. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute shirea1225 purec1300 properc1380 plainc1395 cleana1400 fine?a1400 entirec1400 veryc1400 starka1425 utterc1430 utterlyc1440 merec1443 absolute1531 outright1532 cleara1535 bloodyc1540 unproachable1544 flat1553 downright1577 sheer1583 right-down?1586 single1590 peremptory1601 perfecta1616 downa1625 implicit1625 every way1628 blank1637 out-and-outa1642 errant1644 inaccessional1651 thorough-paced1651 even down1654 dead1660 double-dyed1667 through stitch1681 through-stitched1682 total1702 thoroughgoing1719 thorough-sped1730 regular1740 plumb1748 hollow1751 unextenuated1765 unmitigated1783 stick, stock, stone dead1796 positive1802 rank1809 heart-whole1823 skire1825 solid1830 fair1835 teetotal1840 bodacious1845 raw1856 literal1857 resounding1873 roaring1884 all out1893 fucking1893 pink1896 twenty-four carat1900 grand slam1915 stone1928 diabolical1933 fricking1937 righteous1940 fecking1952 raving1954 1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little (ed. 2) i. xvi. 143 'Twas quite a hollow thing; Goliah won the day. 1761 G. Colman Jealous Wife v. iii. 98 So, my Lord, You and I are both distanced—a hollow Thing, dammee. 1853 C. Dickens Bleak House lxiv. 61 Which, in the opinion of my friends, is a hollow bargain. 1894 Times 31 July 11/1 The Prince's cutter steadily left her opponent and gained a very hollow victory. 7. Of a race: feebly contested. Hence of a victory: obtained against feeble competition. ΚΠ 1876 Coursing Cal. 5 The next course was equally hollow, Death's Flight leading, and winning with any amount in hand. B. adv. 1. In a hollow manner; with a hollow sound or voice; insincerely. Obsolete except in compounds (see sense A. 3). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > insincerity > [adverb] askancesc1450 hollowlya1547 from the teeth forward(s) or outward(s)1561 teeth outward(s)1561 unsincerelya1575 hollow1607 insincerely1625 fictly1677 with (one's) tongue in (one's) cheek1842 phonily1936 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 374 Then hee will cough more hollow. a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) iii. iv. 90 Lo, how hollow the fiend speakes within him. View more context for this quotation 2. Thoroughly, completely, out-and-out; also (U.S.) all hollow. colloquial. [The origin of this is obscure, and has excited conjecture from its first appearance in literature.] ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > utterly allOE allOE outlyOE thwert-outc1175 skerea1225 thoroughc1225 downrightc1275 purec1300 purelyc1300 faira1325 finelyc1330 quitec1330 quitelyc1330 utterlyc1374 outerlya1382 plainlya1382 straighta1387 allutterly1389 starkc1390 oultrelya1393 plata1393 barec1400 outrightc1400 incomparablyc1422 absolutely?a1425 simpliciter?a1425 staringa1425 quitementa1450 properlyc1450 directly1455 merec1475 incomparable1482 preciselyc1503 clean?1515 cleara1522 plain1535 merely1546 stark1553 perfectly1555 right-down1566 simply1574 flat1577 flatly1577 skire1581 plumb1588 dead?1589 rankly1590 stark1593 sheera1600 start1599 handsmooth1600 peremptory1601 sheerly1601 rank1602 utter1619 point-blank1624 proofa1625 peremptorily1626 downrightly1632 right-down1646 solid1651 clever1664 just1668 hollow1671 entirely1673 blank1677 even down1677 cleverly1696 uncomparatively1702 subtly1733 point1762 cussed1779 regularly1789 unqualifiedly1789 irredeemably1790 positively1800 cussedly1802 heart1812 proper1816 slick1818 blankly1822 bang1828 smack1828 pluperfectly1831 unmitigatedly1832 bodaciously1833 unredeemedly1835 out of sight1839 bodacious1845 regular1846 thoroughly1846 ingrainedly1869 muckinga1880 fucking1893 motherless1898 self1907 stone1928 sideways1956 terminally1974 the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > completely [phrase] > thoroughly > from beginning to end or through and through to the boneOE through and throughc1225 out and outc1300 from top to tail1303 out and inc1390 (from) head to heel (also heels)c1400 (from) head to foot (also feet)c1425 from top to (into, unto) toec1425 to the skin1526 to one's (also the) finger (also fingers') ends1530 from first to last1536 up and down1542 whole out1562 to the pith1587 to the back1594 from A to (also until) Z1612 from clew to earing1627 from top to bottom1666 back and edge1673 all hollow1762 (all) to pieces1788 from A to Za1821 to one's (also the) fingertips1825 to one's fingernails1851 from tip to toe1853 down to the ground1859 to the backbone1864 right the way1867 pur sang1893 from the ground up1895 in and out1895 from soda (card) to hock1902 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly all outc1300 out and outc1300 at all devicec1385 to devicec1385 right out?1543 up to the chin1546 up to the eyes1607 upsy Friese1609 up to the (or one's) eyebrowsa1627 all hollow1762 (immersed, steeped) to the lipsa1822 all ends up1850 fair and square1870 right spang1884 to the wide1895 a (also one) hundred per cent1911 1671 S. Skinner & T. Henshaw Etymologicon Linguæ Anglicanæ (at cited word) He carried it Hollow, Luculenter Vicit vel Superavit,..credo dictum quasi ‘he carried it wholy’. 1762 S. Foote Orators i. 6 Foote... You succeeded? Suds... Yes, yes, I got it all hollow. 1768 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 12 Apr. (1932) (modernized text) VI. 2845 He set up for the county of Middlesex, and carried it hollow, as the jockeys say. 1786 J. Wolcot Farewell Odes to Royal Academicians xiv, in Wks. (1794) I. 185 I'm greatly pleas'd..To see the foreigners beat hollow. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 39 Her blood carried it all hollow. 1839 Times 19 Oct. In the article of hypocrisy..as in sheer impudence, Minto has it hollow. 1851 J. H. Newman Lect. Present Position Catholics Eng. 367 Local opinion would carry it hollow against popular opinion. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. v. 100 She beats us younger people hollow. Compounds C1. Qualifying participial adjectives, to which hollow is hyphenated; mostly in sense ‘with a hollow sound’, as hollow-bellowing, hollow-booming, hollow-blustering, hollow-ringing, hollow-sounding, hollow-whispering, etc.; also ‘with a hollow foundation’, as hollow-grounded; hollow-ground adj. ground so as to have a concave surface; so hollow-grinding. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave > ground so as to be hollow-ground1885 1608 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 128 O feble stay! O hollow-grounded hope! 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 223 The hollow-sounding Plain Shakes from afar. 1744 J. Thomson Winter in Seasons (new ed.) 234 Muttering, the Winds..Blow hollow-blustering from the South. 1744 J. Thomson Spring in Seasons (new ed.) 40 The hollow-whispering Breeze, the Plaint of Rills. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 33 The hollower-bellowing ocean. 1885 Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1048 The guaranteed razors. Cases containing 2 Hollow Ground. 1906 W. Watson in Tribune 15 Jan. 2/4 Toll, thou hollow-booming Bell. 1937 R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Med. Bacteriol. ii. 10 In carrying out the examination by direct microscopy use is made of the hollow-ground slide, which is a slide with a hollow of approximately ½ in. ground out on one surface. 1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 72 (heading) Hollow-grinding machine. 1951 R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 73 This..will produce a hollow-ground bevel on the cutter. There are a number of reasons why hollow grinding is preferable to straight. 1968 Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 12 Hollow grinding, a method of grinding a tool to produce a concave face or faces behind a cutting edge. C2. a. Parasynthetic, as hollow-backed, hollow-billed, hollow-cheeked, hollow-chested, hollow-footed, hollow-horned, hollow-jawed, hollow-toned, hollow-vaulted, hollow-voiced adjs. Also hollow-eyed adj., hollow-hearted adj. ΚΠ ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxi^v The nyne properties of an asse..the seuenth to be rounde foted, y^e eyght to be holowe foted. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pettoruto,..that is hollow chested. 1603 J. Davies Microcosmos Pref. 23 Breath'd out with grones, like hollow-voiced windes. a1800 W. Cowper Yardley-Oak in W. Hayley Life & Posthumous Writings Cowper (1804) III. 409 A shatter'd veteran, hollow-trunk'd perhaps. 1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) iv. 88 Some persons prefer a hollow-backed horse. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxi. 595 ‘Look!’ replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 239 The ruminants..called hollow-horned. 1886 W. B. Yeats Mosada 6 Bright-eyed, and hollow-cheeked From fasting. 1963 V. Nabokov Gift iv. 240 He listened to these hollow-chested verses. b. hollow-fronted adj. said of a bullet with a hollow in the point to ensure expansion of the projectile on impact. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot chained1613 steel-piercing1624 chawed1644 studded1865 soft-nosed1893 hollow-fronted1899 mushroomed1901 hollow-pointed1902 spitzer1905 hollow-nosed1909 1899 Kynoch Jrnl. Oct. 14/2 If the ·577 pure lead hollow-fronted bullet hit a man he knew it at once. hollow-nosed adj. = hollow-fronted adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot chained1613 steel-piercing1624 chawed1644 studded1865 soft-nosed1893 hollow-fronted1899 mushroomed1901 hollow-pointed1902 spitzer1905 hollow-nosed1909 1909 Daily Chron. 26 June 1/4 The other cartridges..being of nickle steel and hollow-nosed. 1920 G. Burrard Notes on Sporting Rifles 40 A hollow-nosed bullet. hollow-pointed adj. = hollow-fronted adj. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [adjective] > types of bullet or shot chained1613 steel-piercing1624 chawed1644 studded1865 soft-nosed1893 hollow-fronted1899 mushroomed1901 hollow-pointed1902 spitzer1905 hollow-nosed1909 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 244/1 The hollow-pointed expanding bullet with soft lead nose. 1902 Kynoch Jrnl. Dec. 43/1 Without the mutilation so commonly caused by hollow pointed bullets. C3. In various collocations, chiefly technical. a. hollow block n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > brick or block of brick1427 breeze-block1923 slab1927 hollow block1964 patio block1969 1964 J. S. Scott Dict. Building 167 Hollow blocks or hollow tiles. Concrete or burnt clay hollow building blocks are used for making partitions or external walls, or for forming reinforced concrete hollow-tile floors. Lightweight, thermally-insulating, hollow blocks are also made of foamed slag concrete, diatomite, gypsum, etc. hollow tile n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > other types of tiles semi-tilea1525 quarrel1601 head1703 travers tile1703 astragal1725 fire tile1798 sole1843 field tile1856 fish-scale tile1881 quarry tile1908 hollow tile1914 tile-and-a-half tile1940 1914 Archit. Rec. Feb. 142/2 Terra cotta hollow tile was employed in the exterior and interior bearing walls. 1914 Archit. Rec. Feb. 144/2 The floor construction used was the combination system of hollow tile and reinforced concrete. 1936 Archit. Rev. 80 144/1 Floors and roofs throughout are hollow tile and concrete, and internal walls in the ward block are of hollow partition blocks. b. Also hollow square at square n. 9b, hollow-ware n. hollow-adz n. see hollow-auger n. hollow-auger n. tools with concave instead of flat face, for curved work (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech.). hollow-bastion n. (see quot. 1706). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > bastion bastion1546 jetty1550 pommel1687 demi-bastion1695 moineau1704 hollow-bastion1706 empty bastion1711 roundel1843 bastionet1847 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Bastion Hollow or Voided Bastion, is that which has only a Rampart and a Parapet, ranging about its Flanks and Faces, so that a void Space is left towards the Center or Middle. hollow-blow n. (see quot. 1888). ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollow Blows, blows delivered by a hammer upon a substance which is either unsupported, or insufficiently supported by an opposing block. hollow fire n. (see quot. 1881). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 146 Hollow-fire, a kind of hearth with blast, used for reheating the stamps produced in the South Welsh process of fining, or the bars of blister-steel in the manufacture of shear-steel. hollow fowl n. see hollow meat n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare hollow1823 hollow meat1828 hollow fowl1885 1885 T. Mozley Reminisc. Towns (ed. 2) I. 89 People had then to be content with ‘hollow fowl’, as poultry, ducks, and rabbits were alike called. hollow heart n. a disease of potatoes in which a cavity is formed in the centre of the tuber. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > associated with particular type of plant > crop or food plant > vegetables > potatoes spraing1909 hollow heart1926 1926 F. D. Heald Man. Plant Dis. v. 94 Hollow heart is most frequent in potatoes which have been stimulated to an excessive growth by abundant moisture. 1951 Dict. Gardening (Royal Hort. Soc.) III. 1655/1 Hollow Heart is usually due to the tubers experiencing a dry period in which they mature and lose water so that when the rain comes the quick growth causes the inner tissues to split apart. hollow-horn n. U.S. (see quot. 1962). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle > [noun] > other disorders of cattle murrainc1450 gall1577 gargyse1577 sprenges1577 wisp1577 closh1587 milting1587 moltlong1587 hammer1600 mallet1600 scurvy1604 wither1648 speed1704 nostril dropping1708 bladdera1722 heartsick1725 throstling1726 striking1776 feather-cling1799 hollow-horn1805 weed1811 blood striking1815 the slows1822 toad-bit1825 coast-fever1840 horn-distemper1843 rat's tail1847 whethering1847 milk fever1860 milt-sickness1867 pearl tumour1872 actinomycosis1877 pearl disease1877 rat-tail1880 lumpy jaw1891 niatism1895 cripple1897 rumenitis1897 Rhodesian fever1903 reticulitis1905 barbone1907 contagious abortion1910 trichomoniasis1915 shipping fever1932 New Forest disease1954 bovine spongiform encephalopathy1987 BSE1987 mad cow disease1988 East Coast fever2009 1805 R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 87 There were a few half-starved cattle; in general standing shaking with cold, and many more complaining of what they call the hollow-horn. 1825 J. Lorain Nature in Pract. Husb. 455 The hollow horn, a disease which seldom fails to attack half-famished cattle. 1868 14th Ann. Rep. Iowa State Agric. Soc. 1867 129 Cattle have few diseases in this locality except the ‘buck eye’ and ‘hollow horn’. 1904 ‘O. Henry’ Heart of West v. 69 I..talked with Uncle Emsley a while about hollow-horn and cyclones. 1962 J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 382/1 Hollow horn, an imaginary disease arising from the erroneous belief that loss of appetite and listlessness in a cow was due to hollow horns. The remedy was supposed to be (a) boring a hole in each horn..(b) filling the cavity with salt, sugar, and pepper, and (c) plugging the hole with a wooden peg. The belief was that if the cow had hollow horn this remedy would cure her, and if she did not have hollow horn, the remedy would prevent her getting it. hollow meat n. ‘poultry, rabbits, etc., any meat not sold by butchers’ (Halliwell). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [noun] > meat > poultry and rabbit or hare hollow1823 hollow meat1828 hollow fowl1885 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hollow meat, fowls. hollow-plane n. a plane with a curved sole, used for smoothing concave surfaces. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > shaping tools or equipment > plane > [noun] > for curved surfaces spokeshave1510 hollow-plane1678 round1793 fork-staff-plane1815 howel1846 compass-plane1849 spout plane1855 concave-plane1874 hoop-shave1885 1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iv. 70 Plains in use among Joyners, called Molding plains; as..the Hollow. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1113/1 Hollow-plane, a molding-plane with a convex sole. A round-sole plane. hollow punch n. a hollow circular chisel-edged punch used for cutting smooth holes in yielding material. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. The hollow punch is employed to make holes for rivets in leather..and on other occasions where a smooth, round hole is to be cut out of a yielding material. hollow quoin n. a recess in the walls at each end of a canal lock, to receive the heel-post of the gate. ΚΠ 1838 F. W. Simms Public Wks. Great Brit. ii. 6 The joint between the heel-post and hollow quoin is made watertight by the gate being..worked backwards and forwards. hollow roll n. a roll formed by the edges of two sheets of lead or zinc being bent over together. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > bargeboards, etc. wind-barge1603 waterbargea1613 barge-course1668 roll1810 valley-board1823 verge-board1827 siding1829 barge-board1833 verge1833 verge-boarding1835 parge-board1840 snowboard1876 hollow roll1904 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney Technol. & Sci. Dict. 288/2 Hollow roll, a lead roll made by bending over the edges of sheet lead, and so forming a tube. 1960 B.S.I. News May 23 Guidance on the use of lead sheet used as a covering for roofs... Design methods for both the woodroll and hollow-roll systems. hollow-set n. a smith's gouge for curved work. ΚΠ 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Hollow Set, a smith's gouge, used for dressing off the circular portions of forged work. hollow spar n. [translating German hohlspat] (a name for) chiastolite n. (Ure Dict. Chem. 1823). hollow spun adj. (see quot. 1927). ΚΠ 1927 Daily Tel. 31 Jan. 5 The concrete posts are hollow-spun, the concrete being poured into a hollow mould and spun into shape. hollow-stock n. name of the plants Leonotis nepetaefolia and Malvastrum spicatum ( Cent. Dict.). hollow tower n. (see quot. 1706). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun] > bastion > other works connected with bastions redoubta1608 retired flank1691 hollow tower1706 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) at Tower Hollow Tower (in Fortif.), a Rounding made of the remainder of two Brisures, to joyn the Courtin to the Orillon; where the Small-Shot are plac'd that they may not be too much expos'd to the Enemies View. hollow-turner n. a mechanic who turns hollow or concave vessels, funnels, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific tools or equipment > [noun] > with tools > with lathe turner1415 hollow-turner1887 traverser1921 lathe operator1974 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders II. 243 Peeping out she saw..the hollow-turner..loading his wares—wooden bowls, dishes, spigots, spoons, cheese-vats, funnels and so on. hollow-turnery n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > [noun] > vessels made by hollow turner hollow-turnery1887 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. 56 A neighbour engaged in the hollow-turnery trade. † hollow vein n. Obsolete the vena cava. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > vein > [noun] > specific vein middle veina1398 portaa1398 saphena1398 funisa1400 sciaticaa1400 guidesc1400 haemorrhoidc1400 salvatellac1400 liver veina1425 median?a1425 mesaraic?a1425 sciatic?a1425 venal artery?a1425 sciat1503 organal vein1523 axillar?1541 weeping vein1543 port-vein1586 lip-vein1598 nose vein1598 sciatic vein1598 cephalic vein1599 hollow vein1605 jugular1615 scapulary1615 subclavian vein1615 umbilical vessel1615 basilica1625 porter-vein1625 neck vein1639 garter-vein1656 matricious vein1656 sacred vein1656 subclavicular1656 subclavial1664 vertebral1718 portal vein1765 cava1809 satellite vein1809 brachial1859 innominate vein1866 precaval1866 postcava1882 precava1882 postcaval1891 Vesalian vein1891 sciatic1892 subcardinal1902 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vi. 215 Through branching pipes of the great Hollow vaine. 1625 J. Hart Anat. Urines ii. viii. 105 Through the mesaraicke veines into the great porter veine, and from thence into the great hollow veine. hollow wall n. = cavity wall n. at cavity n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > wall > other types of wall sidewall1381 brick wall1465 outwall1535 parpen1591 parapet1598 inwall?1611 breastwork1673 parapet wall1682 dwarf1718 screen1761 screen wall1770 hollow wall1823 alure1853 curtain wall1859 core-wall1899 blank wall1904 1823 New Pract. Builder & Workman's Compan. 586/2 Hollow-wall, a wall built in two thicknesses, leaving a cavity between, which may be either for saving materials or for preserving an uniform temperature in apartments. 1891 Notes Building Constr. (rev. ed.) II. 10 The hollow wall is often arranged to begin on the damp-proof course. 1942 J. A. Mulligan Handbk. Brick Masonry Constr. 362 The building code of the City of New York uses the term ‘hollow wall’ instead of cavity wall. hollow-way n. (also holloway) a way, road, or path, through a defile or cutting; also extended, as in quot. 1882. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > [noun] > cut through a wood or rock trenchc1405 holleway?a1500 path1548 cut1730 hollow-way1765 score1790 shute1879 1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. xix. 72 Acquainted intimately with every country.., the roads, and hollow ways which lead up to them. 1882 D. Gardner Quatre Bras, Ligny, & Waterloo 182 (note) The term ‘hollow-way’ is employed by English writers on this battle [Waterloo]..to designate any means of passage, from a footpath to a boulevard, which is enclosed on the sides to a considerable height, whether by walls, fences, hedges, houses, or embankments. Draft additions September 2016 hollow leg n. colloquial and humorous (often in plural) the ability or capacity to consume an unusually large amount of food or (alcoholic) drink, esp. without apparent adverse effects; frequently in to have (a) hollow leg(s). ΚΠ 1883 Daily Evening Bull. (San Francisco) 31 Jan. 8/4 ‘That fellow has hollow legs!’..‘This young man will wake up..with a very uncomfortable stomach. A quart of..water is more than the usual capacity.’ 1939 Gippsland (Victoria) Times 23 Jan. 8/3 (in comic strip) Give Blue plenty [of food] mum, he's got hollow legs y'know! 1964 S. Michaels Dylan i. 28 I can outlast any camp follower alive on the round of bars every night. I'm famous for my hollow leg. 1987 Today's Health Apr. 13/1 Adolescent boys seem to have a hollow leg. 2008 R. Hill Cure for All Dis. (2009) i. xvii. 181 A couple of glasses of wine and you're wobbling like a blancmange. I thought you detectives all had hollow legs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022). hollowv. Brit. /ˈhɒləʊ/, U.S. /ˈhɑloʊ/ Etymology: < hollow adj. 1. a. transitive. To render hollow or concave; to make a hollow in; to excavate. Also with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave hollowc1450 incavate1727 to jaw away1802 dish1805 concave1818 saucer1855 spoon1897 cup1909 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] holec1000 mine?a1425 hollowc1450 cave?1541 raven1560 excave1578 excavate1599 exconcavate1599 c1450 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 415/1 (note) (MS. Coll. Arms) Suche a stroke cam doune..that hit holwed the stonene walle to a mannes gretnesse. 1477 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Hist. Jason (1913) 26 How well the stone is myned and holowed by contynuell droppyng of water. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 55^v Hollowyng it cunnyngly with an Alle or a Bodkyn. 1727 P. Longueville Hermit 175 The Rock..hollow'd in after the manner of the Inside of some Cathedral. 1785 W. Cowper Task vi. 311 Some lonely elm That age or injury has hollowed deep. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xviii. 125 The wall of one [fissure]..was hollowed out longitudinally. figurative.1842 Ld. Tennyson Love & Duty in Poems (new ed.) II. 86 The want, that hollow'd all the heart. b. To bend into a hollow or concave shape. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (transitive)] > make concave > bend into concave shape incavea1586 hollow1601 1601 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor i. iii. sig. C4 Hollow your bodie more sir, thus. View more context for this quotation 1842 Ld. Tennyson Palace of Art (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 143 Hollowing one hand against his ear, To listen for a footfall. 1889 Macmillan's Mag. Aug. 246/2 I hollowed my hands into the form of a binocular glass. 2. To form by making a hollow (in something); to excavate. Often with out. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > make hollow [verb (transitive)] > form by hollowing out sink?a1425 to cut out1548 void?1578 cut1634 hollow1648 to work out1774 excavate1839 tunnel1856 1648 R. Herrick Hesperides sig. F^v Next, hollow out a Tombe to cover Me. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 19 Who led us into a Grotto hollowed in the Rock. 1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature (1799) III. 338 Amphitrite..intreated the Nereids to hollow out that little bay. 1817 C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore in Edinb. Monthly Mag. June 278/1 As we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow. 3. To make hollow in tone. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > non-resonant sound [verb (transitive)] > make hollow hollow1772 1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. 96 Hollowing his voice, and snuffling with much sedate confidence. 4. intransitive. To become hollow or concave. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > form curved surface [verb (intransitive)] > curve concavely valleya1552 sag1777 cup1830 hollow1862 saucer1925 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > become hollow [verb (intransitive)] hollow1862 1862 F. W. Faber Hymns vii. 394 How suddenly earth seems to hollow. 1892 Harper's Mag. Jan. 280/2 Her cheeks seemed to hollow in, and her chin shook. Derivatives hollowed adj. /ˈhɒləʊd/ made hollow, excavated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [adjective] > concave hollc1000 hollowa1250 denteda1398 concaved?1541 saddle-backed1545 vaulty1545 concave?a1560 sinuated1578 inboweda1586 inbowing1603 inwinding1610 hollowed1613 crusy1625 simous1634 invex1688 scooped1726 depressed1753 hollowed-out1755 scooping1821 shell1823 welled1848 concaving1871 incaved- the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [adjective] > hollowed caved1426 excavate?a1560 bowelled1589 excavated1599 hollowed1613 cavated1731 hollowed-out1755 gulled1821 scooped1897 the world > space > relative position > posture > position of specific body parts > [adjective] > arm or hand > specific hand flat1847 scooped1860 hollowed1884 steepled1971 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 643 In boats made of a hollowed tree (like the Indian Canoas). 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 55 Then first on Seas the hollow'd Alder swam. View more context for this quotation 1884 J. Payn Some Lit. Recoll. 217 His hollowed hand and smiling attentive face. 1889 Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 Wooden pipes and hollowed trunks of trees. ˈhollowing n. a making hollow, excavation; also attributive, as in hollowing-iron, hollowing-knife, hollowing-machine, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved surface > [noun] > concavity > making concave hollowing1607 the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > hollowness > [noun] > making hollow hollowing1607 excavation1611 excavating1691 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice vi. 62 Make it by a little hollowing to bear..from the false quarter. 1641 in T. Lechford Note-bk. (1885) 428 One hollowing iron..one rabbetting iron. 1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 584. ¶6 The digging of Trenches, and the hollowing of Trees, for the better Distribution of Water. 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hollowing-knife (Coopering), a drawing-knife for working on concave surfaces. 1876 Clin. Soc. Trans. 9 191 When the child was made to bend the body, this lumbar hollowing did not disappear. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : hollohollowhollav. also refers to : hollohollowint.n. < n.c897adj.adv.a1250v.c1450 see also
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hollown.

hollowadj.adv.

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hollowv.

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