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One who, or that which, extinguishes; esp., a hollow cone or other device for extinguishing a flame, as of a torch or candle.

efeat, as in controversy. [Collog.] I should have been a stercoraceous mendicant if I had hollowed when I got a facer. C. Kingsley.

Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray.

Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.

To make hollow or become hollow like a fistula, or pipe. [Obs.] "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.

Formed like a fistula; hollow; reedlike. Craig.

Hollow, like a pipe or reed; fistulose. Lindley.

for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware.

The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed at the upper end, and blown with the mouth at a lateral hole. The breathing flute's soft notes are heard around. Pope.…

A little hollow; hence, a dimple.

A lantern having a lamp surrounded by a hollow cylindrical Fresnel lens.

in the illustration, the cone a on one shaft, when thrust forcibly into the corresponding hollow cone b on the other shaft, compels the shafts to rotate together, by the hold the friction of the conical surfaces gives. (b) A toothed clutch, one member of which, instead of being made fast on its shaft, is held by fricti…

n its limits all that it can contain; supplied; not empty or vacant; -- said primarily of hollow vessels, and hence of anything else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.

A hollow cylinder of wickerwork, like a basket without a bottom. Gabions are made of various sizes, and filled with earth in building fieldworks to shelter men from an enemy's fire.

A hollow globe on the inner surface of which a map of the world is depicted, to be examined by one standing inside.