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A hollow place or cavity; an excavation; a pit; an opening in or through a solid body, a fabric, etc.; a perforation; a rent; a fissure. The holes where eyes should be. Shak. The blind walls Were full of chinks and holes. Tennyson. The priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid. 2 Kings xii. 9.…

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Hollow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

e remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

A leafless plant, with hollow and rushlike stems. It is of the genus Equisetum, and is allied to the ferns. See Illust. of Equisetum.

A gun so short that the projectile, which was hollow, could be put in its place by hand; a kind of mortar. [Obs.]

See Hollo.

The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea.

, hydrometric observations. Hydrometric pendulum, a species of hydrometer consisting of a hollow ball of ivory or metal suspended by a treated from the center of a graduated quadrant, and held in a stream to measure the velocity of the water by the inclination given to the thread; a kind of current gauge.…

Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.

Made hollow; bent round or in.

Act of making hollow; also, a hollow; an exvation; a depression.

Cut or stamped in, or hollowed out by engraving. "Irregular incuse square." Dr. W. Smith.

To indent; to make hollows, notches, or wrinkles in; to furrow. Though age may creep on, and indenture the brow. Woty.

Hollow and distended, as a perianth, corolla, nectary, or pericarp. Martyn.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

r of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerity of a professed friend; the insincerity of professions of regard. What men call policy and knowledge of the world, is commonly no other thing than dissimulation and insincerity. Bl…

terior, or superficial; as, the interior apartments of a house; the interior surface of a hollow ball.

Having one portion of a hollow organ drawn back within another portion.