With hollow eye and wrinkled brow.
Shak.
3. Reverberated from a cavity, or resembling such a sound; deep;
muffled; as, a hollow roar. Dryden.
4. Not sincere or faithful; false; deceitful; not sound; as, a hollow
heart; a hollow friend. Milton.
Hollow newel (Arch.), an opening in the center of a winding staircase
in place of a newel post, the stairs being supported by the wall; an
open newel; also, the stringpiece or rail winding around the well of
such a staircase. -- Hollow quoin (Engin.), a pier of stone or brick
made behind the lock gates of a canal, and containing a hollow or
recess to receive the ends of the gates. -- Hollow root. (Bot.) See
Moschatel. -- Hollow square. See Square. -- Hollow ware, hollow
vessels; -- a trade name for cast-iron kitchen utensils, earthenware,
etc.
Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless;
deceitful; treacherous.
Hol"low (?), n. 1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space
within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the
hand or of a tree.
2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface;
a concavity; a channel.
Forests grew Upon the barren hollows.
Prior.