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Same as Hollo.

ural or artificial, within a solid substance; not solid; excavated in the interior; as, a hollow tree; a hollow sphere. Hollow with boards shalt thou make it. Ex. xxvii. 8..

Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.

State of being hollow. Bacon.

A young male fur seal, esp. one from three to six years old; -- called also bachelor, because prevented from breeding by the older full-grown males.

Wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A species of Althæa (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.

A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.

An oxide of holmium.

A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite. -- Hol"mic, a.

A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal. Fairholt.

A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.

an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.

Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.

A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations. Milton.

f elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimæras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimæra; also Illustration in Appendix.

Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered. Holocryptic cipher, a cipher so constructed as to afford no clew to its meaning to one ignorant of the key.

Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.