Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8.

With hollow eye and wrinkled brow. Shak.

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.

Forests grew
Upon the barren hollows. Prior.

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood. Tennyson.

The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.

Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear. Fuller.

He has hollowed the hounds. Sir W. Scott.