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ll to attract attention; a halloo. And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo. Coleridge.

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 hollow cylinder to contain air. It is closed above and open below, and has its open end plunged into water.

bs.] Shak. (b) Almost; nearly. "The fine arts were all but proscribed." Macaulay. -- All hollow, entirely, completely; as, to beat any one all hollow. [Low] -- All one, the same thing in effect; that is, wholly the same thing. -- All over, over the whole extent; thoroughly; wholly; as, she is her mother all over. [Co…

The hollow of the external ear. Quincy.

A soft, pulsating, hollow tumor, containing blood, arising from the preternatural dilation or rupture of the coats of an artery. [Written also aneurysm.]

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

A hollow blastula, supposed to be the primitive form; a c

A lamp with a circular hollow wick and glass chimney which allow a current of air both inside and outside of the flame. Argand burner, a burner for an Argand lamp, or a gas burner in which the principle of that lamp is applied.

The hollow beneath the junction of the arm and shoulder; the axilla.

d in a circular flower, the petals of which form a cup round it, -- usually inserted in a hollow molding.

rising ground bordering a lake, river, or sea, or forming the edge of a cutting, or other hollow. Tiber trembled underneath her banks. Shak.

form of reaction wheel. The water flows into a vertical tube and gushes from apertures in hollow horizontal arms, causing the machine to revolve on its axis.

A solid drum, or a hollow cylinder or case; as, the barrel of a windlass; the barrel of a watch, within which the spring is coiled.

A hollow vessel or dish, to hold water for washing, and for various other uses.