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A hollow in a hillside. [Prov. Eng.] See Comb, Combe.

The prtion of a mold which shapes the interior of a cylinder, tube, or other hollow casting, or which makes a hole in or through a casting; a part of the mold, made separate from and inserted in it, for shaping some part of the casting, the form of which is not determined by that of the pattern.

A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. "Fleet foot on the correi." Sir W. Scott.

osition of the earth, at any given time, with respect to the fixed stars. It consist of a hollow glass globe, on which are depicted the stars and constellations, and within which is a terrestrial globe.

To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove. The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. H. Swinburne. Coved ceiling, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove. -- Coved vault, a vault composed of four coves meetin…

expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

To make a continuous hollow moan, as cattle do when in pain. [Scot.] Jamieson.

A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion.

A hollow place at the bottom of a furnace, to receive the melted metal.

The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow.

Hollow; cuplike; also, full of cups, or small depressions.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

Any hollow body of cylindrical form, as:

A cyme. See Cyme. Cyma recta, or Cyma, a cyma, hollow in its upper part and swelling below. -- Cyma reversa, or Ogee, a cyma swelling out on the upper part and hollow below.

A hollow, crack, or cut, in timber. Moxon.

ocean; an abyss; a great depth. Courage from the deeps of knowledge springs. Cowley. The hollow deep of hell resounded. Milton. Blue Neptune storms, the bellowing deeps resound. Pope.

A small cavern or hollow place in the side of a hill, or among rocks; esp., a cave used by a wild beast for shelter or concealment; as, a lion's den; a den of robbers.

A slight depression, or small notch or hollow, made by a blow or by pressure; an indentation. A blow that would have made a dent in a pound of butter. De Quincey.

Indented; impressed with little hollows.

Having the middle lower than the border; concave. [Obs.] If the seal be depress or hollow. Hammond.