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▪ I. hollow, n.|ˈhɒləʊ|
Forms: 1–2 holh, 3 holȝ, 6– holow, hollow.
[OE. holh (cf. OHG. huliwa, hulwa, MHG. hülwe, pool, puddle, slough):—OTeut. *holhwo-, app. radically related to OE. hol, holl a., hole n., and holc, holk, cavity; but the nature of the formation is obscure. As shown under hole n. (q.v.), hollow represents an inflexion of holh, *holw-e, *holw-es, etc., whence ME. holwe, holewe, holowe, while the inflexional type *hol-e, *hol-es, etc., fell together with hole n.
OE. holh was only n.; it was perh. from association with hol, which was both adj. and n., that holh was also made an adj. in early ME.: see next word. But the history is peculiar, for while the n. came down to 1205, in ME. only the adjective occurs; the n. reappears c 1550, app. formed anew from the adj.; from which time both n. and adj. have been in common use.]
1. A hollow or concave formation or place, which has been dug out, or has the form of having so been:
†a. a hole, cave, den, burrow (obs.);
†b. a hole running through the length or thickness of anything; a bore (obs.);
c. a surface concavity, more or less deep, an excavation, a depression on any surface;
d. an internal cavity (with or without an orifice); a void space;
e. (see quot. 1940).
c897K. ælfred Gregory's Past. xxxiii. 218 Holh wæs beboden ðæt sceolde beon on ðæm weobude uppan, forðæm ðæt wind ne meahte ða lac tostencean. Ibid. xxxv. 240 Ðær se iil hæfde his holh. c1175Lamb. Hom. 23 Þah an castel beo wel bemoned mid monne and mid wepne, and þer beo analpi holh þat an mon mei crepan in. c1205Lay. 20848 [The fox] holȝes [c 1275 holes] him wurcheð.
(β) In modern English.
1560Bible (Genev.) Gen. xxxii. 25 He touched y⊇ holow of his thigh, and the holow of Iaakobs thigh was losed. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 3 It was the Nightingale, and not the Larke, That pier'st the fearefull hollow of thine eare. 1605― Lear ii. iii. 2 By the happy hollow of a Tree. 1611Bible Isa. xl. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 774 The first Indians..had one, and some both of their teats bored thorow, in the hollow wherof..they wear a Reed. 1658A. Fox Wurtz' Surg. iii. viii. 240 If congealed bloud be in the body, and that within the hollow of it. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 165 We rested in the hollow of a Rock, where we spent the Night. 1691Ray Creation ii. (1692) 62 The hollow of the Bones..serves to contain the Marrow. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 218 An Hollow on the Tooth [of a tool] makes a Round upon the Work; and a Round upon the Tooth, makes an Hollow on the Work. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 253 A like Iron Pipe, whose hollow were very small. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 124 Sometimes the back sweep which forms the upper part of the top⁓timber is called the top-timber hollow. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hollow, the bore of a rocket. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hollow..the empty portion of a bastion... The depression in an anvil-face or fullering. 1884A. R. Pennington Wiclif ix. 296 Such places as the hollow of an oak. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 201 Completely closed hollows or cavities. 1885J. G. Horner Pattern Making iii. 26 Many of the best wheels are made with hollows at the roots of the teeth, for here the action of leverage on the tooth induces the greatest stress. 1924J. McC. Wilson Pattern-Making iv. 28 In finishing the pattern all the angled corners are filled in either with Angled or Hollowed Fillets... Hollows are used in well-finished work. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 418/2 Hollows, fillets, or curves of small radius, uniting two surfaces intersecting at an angle.
fig.1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xxi. 271 The empty hollow of an unsatisfied heart.
2. spec. A depression on the earth's surface; a place or tract below the general level or surrounded by heights; a valley, a basin.
1553Brende Q. Curtius 170 All the holowes and valeys there about rebounding with the voice of so many thousandes. 1601Holland Pliny I. 96 Within the inner compasse and hollow of Africke. 1649Providence (R.I.) Rec. (1893) II. 9 His 6 acre Lot..runneth all along on the brow or top of that Hollow. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 258 A very narrow but deep hollow. 1846H. Beckely Hist. Vermont 55 The vallies and hollows interspersed among the mountains and hills are generally very fertile. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 16 The river then does really occupy a hollow, inclosed on three sides by high ground. 1885Miss Thackeray Mrs. Dymond 18 Can you make out the sea, Susy? Look, there it is shining in the hollow.
3. The middle or depth (of night or of winter): = Sc. howe.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xv. ix. VI. 62 These were Friedrich's last general orders, given in the hollow of the night.
4. Short for hollow meat, hollow moulding, hollow plane, hollow square: see hollow a. 7.
1726Neve Builder's Dict., Hollow, a Term in Architecture, by which is meant a Concave Molding, being about a Quadrant of a Circle; by some it is called a Casement, by others an Abacus. 1764Foote Mayor of G. i. (1783) 13, I learnt to form lines, and hollows, and squares. 1823Egan Grose's Dict. Vulg. T., Hollow, among epicures, means poultry. Nothing but hollow for dinner. 1850Holtzappffel Turning II. 492 Concave and convex planes, called hollows and rounds.
5. Bookbinding. A strip of thick paper or paste-board, cut to the height and thickness of the book for which the boards and cloth are intended, and which acts as a gauge for the guidance of the case-makers and as a stiffener for the cloth at the back of the book (Ure's Dict. Arts (1875) I. 421).
▪ II. hollow, a. and adv.|ˈhɒləʊ|
Forms: 3 holh, holeh, holeuh, holu, 3–4 holȝ, holewe, 3–5 holw(e, 4 holou, -ouȝ, -ough, 4–5 holowȝ, 4–6 holow(e, 5 holgh, holuȝe, 6 hollowe, 6– hollow.
[ME. holȝ, holeh, also holu, inflected holwe, holewe, identical in form with holh, holȝ, pl. holȝes, holwes n.: see prec. The development of -lw(e, -low from -lᵹe, -lᵹ, is normal: cf. follow, hallow, sallow, etc.]
A. adj.
1. a. Having a hole or cavity inside; having an empty space in the interior; opp. to solid.
a1250Owl & Night. 1113 An holȝ [v.r. holeh] stoc hwar þu þe miht hude. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 202/96 In one holewe weie onder eorþe. 1297R. Glouc. (1724) 251 And made kynges fourme of bras al holu wyþinne. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2182 Al watz holȝ in-with, no-bot an olde caue. c1350Will. Palerne 295 Vnder an holw ok. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 395 A ȝerde of fir holowȝ wiþ ynne as a pipe. 1398― Barth. De P.R. viii. xxi. (1495) The sterres ben rounde..and ben sadde and sounde, not holough nother hooly in the vtter party. 1530Palsgr. 232/1 Holowe spere, bovrdon. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 190 b, The juice thrust into a hollow tooth, asswageth the paine. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 567 This was hollow, the other solid. Ibid. 833 Blow it thorow hollow canes. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 84 In trunks of trees made hollow either by fire or age. 1748Anson's Voy. i. iii. 30 Orellana placed his hands hollow to his mouth, and bellowed out the war-cry used by those savages. 1817J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 286 note, Although many species of trees are liable to become hollow, yet none are so perfectly hollowed as the gum tree. [1848Lowell Biglow P. Ser. i. iv. 15 A marciful Providunce fashioned us holler, O' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.]
b. Having an empty or vacant space beneath.
1657R. Ligon Barbadoes (1673) 43, I would raise my foundation..three foot above ground; leaving it hollow underneath for Ventiducts. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 124 Alexandria is all hollow under, being an entire Cistern. 1703T. N. City & C. Purchaser 136 They..dry and season their Boards..laying them..hollow for the Air to play between them. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. iii. 28 The floor..was snow, which I knew to be hollow beneath.
†c. Porous or open in texture or composition: the opposite of close, compact, or solid. Obs.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. iii. xx. (1495) The tonge towchinge the complexion of the substaunce therof is holowe and full of holes. 1733J. Tull Horse-Hoeing Husb. vi. 24 Roots and Plants, which otherwise require the lightest and hollowest Mould. Ibid., note, 'Tis easier..to imitate this Artificial Dust in hollow than in strong Land.
2. a. Having a hole, depression, or groove on the surface; depressed below the surrounding surface, sunken, indented; excavated, concave.
c1205Lay. 761 Wes þe wei holh & long. a1250Owl & Night. 643 Mi nest is holȝ [v.r. holeuh]. a1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2193 Ariadne, The holwe rokkis answerden hire a-gayn. c1440Promp. Parv. 242/2 Holow, as vessellys..concavus. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 44 Then must the grounde neither lye hollowe, nor in hilles. 1674tr. Scheffer's Lapland 8 The snows..continue undissolv'd in hollow places between the hills. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 150 If any part of the Floor prove hollow, they lay a Chip..upon that hollow place, to bare up the Board. Ibid. 187 The hollow edge of the Hook. 1854Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1879) I. 151 Our way to it was up a hollow lane.
b. Of the eyes, cheeks, etc.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1695 Holȝe were his yȝen. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxix. (Percy) 135 Hys eyen holow, and his nose croked. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. (1586) 117 A horse when he beginnes to be olde, his temples waxe hollowe. 1726Adv. Capt. R. Boyle 114 With hollow Cheeks, and Eyes black. 1858Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 358 Bess..was rather thinner, and her eyes hollower. 1873Longfellow Challenge ix, Hollow and haggard faces Look into the lighted hall.
c. Of the sea: Having the troughs between the crests of the waves very deep.
1726G. Roberts 4 Years Voy. 19 With a very hard Gale of Wind..and a very deep hollow Sea. 1748Anson's Voy. i. x. 104 The ship laboured very much in a hollow sea. 1805Naval Chron. XIII. 469 The sea was running very hollow. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk., Hollow Sea, the undulation of the waves after a gale; long hollow-jawed sea; ground-swell.
3. Empty, vacant, void; hence, having an empty stomach, hungry; lean, starved-looking.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 108 So hungri and so holewe. c1386Chaucer Prol. 289 He nas nat right fat, I vndertake, But looked holwe and ther to sobrely. c1460Towneley Myst. ii. 310, I will fayre on feld ther oure bestis ar, To looke if thay be holgh or full. 1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. iii. 75 His Coffers sound With hollow Pouerty, and Emptinesse. 1598― Merry W. iv. ii. 171 As iealous as Ford, that search'd a hollow Wall-nut for his wiues Lemman. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iv. ii. I. 392 That also is gone; and the hollow Eternities have swallowed it. 1878B. Taylor Deukalion i. i. 21 The strains dissolve into the hollow air. Mod. It must be getting towards dinner-time; I'm feeling pretty hollow.
4. transf. Of sound: Wanting body; not full-toned; ‘sepulchral’.
1563Sackville in Mirr. Mag., Induct. xliv, With broken and hollow playnt. 1583Earl of Northampton Defensative Ep. Ded., Like young babies, they regarde... Rattles that can make a kind of hollow sound. 1633T. James Voy. 8 It made a hollow..noyse, like an ouer-fall of water. 1798W. Nares in Anti-Jacobin xxii. (1852) 106 My voice as hollow as a ghost's. 1881Broadhouse Mus. Acoustics 175 If only the uneven partials are present..the quality of tone is hollow. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid ii. 546 On the brass of the buckler it smote with a hollow ring.
5. fig. Of persons and things: Wanting soundness, solidity, or substance; empty, vain; not answering inwardly to outward appearance; insincere, false.
a1529Skelton Sp. Parrot 595 So many holow hartes, and so dowbyll faces. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 113 Too holy a profession, for so hollow a person. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iii. ii. 66 It is knowne we were but hollow Friends. 1593― Rich. II, i. iv. 9. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iv. iv. §14 The Kings Army was hollow at the heart. 1769Junius Lett. xxix. 131 A false or hollow friendship. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xlii. 562 Flattering and hollow words. 1832Lander Adv. Niger I. v. 209 The governor's pretensions are as hollow as they are improbable. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. v. iii. (1866) 696 The hollow truce with the Huguenots in France had..been again succeeded by war.
6. [f. the adv.: cf. B. 2.] Complete, thorough, out-and-out. colloq.
1750Coventry Pompey Litt. i. xvi. (1785) 41/1 It was quite a hollow thing; Goliah won the day. 1761Colman Jealous Wife v. (D.), So, my lord, you and I are both distanced; a hollow thing, damme. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. lxiv, Which, in the opinion of my friends, is a hollow bargain. 1894Times 31 July 11/1 The Prince's cutter steadily left her opponent and gained a very hollow victory.
7. In various collocations, chiefly technical: hollow block, hollow tile; hollow-adz, -auger, tools with concave instead of flat face, for curved work (Knight Dict. Mech.); hollow-bastion (see quot.); hollow fire (see quot.); hollow fowl, meat, ‘poultry, rabbits, etc., any meat not sold by butchers’ (Halliwell); hollow heart, a disease of potatoes in which a cavity is formed in the centre of the tuber; hollow-horn U.S. (see quot. 1962); hollow roll: see roll n.1 11 b; hollow spar [tr. Ger. hohlspat], a name for chiastolite (Ure Dict. Chem. 1823); hollow-stock, name of the plants Leonotis nepetæfolia and Malvastrum spicatum (Cent. Dict.); hollow tower (see quot.); hollow-turner, a mechanic who turns hollow or concave vessels, funnels, etc.; hence hollow-turnery; † hollow vein, the vena cava; hollow wall = cavity wall (cavity 4); hollow-way, a way, road, or path, through a defile or cutting; also extended, as in quot. 1882. hollow month, mould, plane, square, -ware: see these words.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Bastion, *Hollow or Voided Bastion, is that which has only a Rampart and a Parapet, ranging about its Flanks and Faces, so that a void Space is left towards the Center or Middle.
1964J. S. Scott Dict. Building 167 *Hollow blocks or hollow tiles. Concrete or burnt clay hollow building blocks are used for making partitions or external walls, or for forming reinforced concrete hollow-tile floors. Lightweight, thermally-insulating, hollow blocks are also made of foamed slag concrete, diatomite, gypsum, etc.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Hollow-fire, a kind of hearth with blast, used for reheating the stamps produced in the South Welsh process of fining, or the bars of blister-steel in the manufacture of shear-steel.
1885T. Mozley Remin. Towns, etc. I. 89 People had then to be content with ‘*hollow fowl’, as poultry, ducks, and rabbits were alike called.
1926F. D. Heald Man. Plant Dis. v. 94 *Hollow heart is most frequent in potatoes which have been stimulated to an excessive growth by abundant moisture. 1951Dict. Gardening (R. Hort. Soc.) III. 1655/1 Hollow Heart is usually due to the tubers experiencing a dry period in which they mature and lose water so that when the rain comes the quick growth causes the inner tissues to split apart.
1805R. Parkinson Tour Amer. 87 There were a few half-starved cattle; in general standing shaking with cold, and many more complaining of what they call the *hollow-horn. 1825J. Lorain Pract. Husb. 455 The hollow horn, a disease which seldom fails to attack half-famished cattle. 1868Rep. Iowa Agric. Soc. 1867 129 Cattle have few diseases in this locality except the ‘buck eye’ and ‘hollow horn’. 1962J. N. Winburne Dict. Agric. 382/1 Hollow horn, an imaginary disease arising from the erroneous belief that loss of appetite and listlessness in a cow was due to hollow horns. The remedy was supposed to be (a) boring a hole in each horn..(b) filling the cavity with salt, sugar, and pepper, and (c) plugging the hole with a wooden peg. The belief was that if the cow had hollow horn this remedy would cure her, and if she did not have hollow horn, the remedy would prevent her getting it.
1828Craven Dial., *Hollow meat, fowls.
1914Archit. Rec. Feb. 142/2 Terra cotta *hollow tile was employed in the exterior and interior bearing walls. Ibid. 144/2 The floor construction used was the combination system of hollow tile and reinforced concrete. 1936Archit. Rev. LXXX. 144/1 Floors and roofs throughout are hollow tile and concrete, and internal walls in the ward block are of hollow partition blocks.
1706Phillips (ed. Kersey) s.v. Tower, *Hollow Tower (in Fortif.), a Rounding made of the remainder of two Brisures, to joyn the Courtin to the Orillon; where the Small-Shot are plac'd that they may not be too much expos'd to the Enemies View.
1887T. Hardy Woodlanders II. 243 Peeping out she saw..the *hollow-turner..loading his wares—wooden bowls, dishes, spigots, spoons, cheese-vats, funnels and so on.
Ibid. I. 56 A neighbour engaged in the *hollow-turnery trade.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vi. 719 Through branching pipes of the great *Hollow-vein. 1625Hart Anat. Ur. ii. viii. 105 Through the mesaraicke veines into the great porter veine, and from thence into the great hollow veine.
1823New Pract. Builder & Workman's Compan. 586/2 *Hollow-wall, a wall built in two thicknesses, leaving a cavity between, which may be either for saving materials or for preserving an uniform temperature in apartments. 1891Notes on Building Construction II. 10 The hollow wall is often arranged to begin on the damp-proof course. 1942J. A. Mulligan Handbk. Brick Masonry Construction 362 The building code of the City of New York uses the term ‘hollow wall’ instead of cavity wall.
1761Sterne Tr. Shandy (1802) III. 147 Acquainted intimately with every country..the..roads, and *hollow-ways which lead up to them. 1882D. Gardner Quatre Bras, etc. 182 note, The term ‘hollow-way’ is employed by English writers on this battle [Waterloo]..to designate any means of passage, from a footpath to a boulevard, which is enclosed on the sides to a considerable height, whether by walls, fences, hedges, houses, or embankments.
8. Comb. (parasynthetic), as hollow-backed, hollow-billed, hollow-cheeked, hollow-chested, hollow-footed, hollow-horned, hollow-jawed, hollow-toned, hollow-vaulted, hollow-voiced adjs. hollow-fronted, -nosed, -pointed adjs., said of a bullet with a hollow in the point to ensure expansion of the projectile on impact. Also hollow-eyed, -hearted.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §78 The nyne propertyes of an asse..the .vii. to be rounde foted, the .viii. to be holowe foted. 1598Florio Worlde of Wordes 273/1 Pettoruto,..that is hollow chested. 1603J. Davies Microcosm. Wks. 1878 I. 17/2 Breath'd out with grones, like hollow-voiced windes. 1791Cowper Yardley Oak 4 A shattered veteran, hollow-trunked perhaps. 1831Youatt Horse 31 (U.K.S.) Some persons prefer a hollow-backed horse. 1851H. Melville Moby Dick III. xlv. 255 ‘Look!’ replied the hollow-cheeked captain from his taffrail. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 239 The ruminants..called hollow-horned. 1886W. B. Yeats Mosada 6 Bright-eyed, and hollow-cheeked From fasting. 1899Kynoch Jrnl. Oct.–Nov. 14/2 If the ·577 pure lead hollow-fronted bullet hit a man he knew it at once. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXXII. 244/1 The hollow-pointed expanding bullet with soft lead nose. 1902–3Kynoch Jrnl. Dec.–Jan. 43/1 Without the mutilation so commonly caused by hollow pointed bullets. 1909Daily Chron. 26 June 1/4 The other cartridges..being of nickle steel and hollow-nosed. 1920G. Burrard Notes on Sporting Rifles 40 A hollow-nosed bullet. 1963V. Nabokov Gift iv. 240 He listened to these hollow-chested verses.
B. adv.
1. In a hollow manner; with a hollow sound or voice; insincerely. Obs. exc. in comb. (see 3).
1601Shakes. Twel. N. iii. iv. 101 Lo, how hollow the fiend speakes within him. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 291 Then he will cough more hollow.
2. Thoroughly, completely, out-and-out; also (U.S.) all hollow. colloq.[The origin of this is obscure, and has excited conjecture from its first appearance in literature.] 1668–71Skinner Etymol. Ling. Angl. s.v., He carried it Hollow, Luculenter Vicit vel Superavit,..credo dictum quasi ‘he carried it wholy’. 1762Foote Orators i. Wks. 1799 I. 193 Foote... You succeeded? Suds... Yes, yes, I got it all hollow. 1767Chesterfield Lett. (1794) IV. cccxxi. 267 He set up for the County of Middlesex, and carried it hollow, as the jockeys say. 1786Wolcott (P. Pindar) Farew. Odes xiv. Wks. 1794 I. 185 I'm greatly pleas'd..To see the foreigners beat hollow. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. II. 39 Her blood carried it all hollow. 1839Times 19 Oct., In the article of hypocrisy..as in sheer impudence, Minto has it hollow. 1851J. H. Newman Cath. in Eng. 367 Local opinion would carry it hollow against popular opinion. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede 47 She beats us younger people hollow.
3. In Comb., qualifying ppl. adjs., to which hollow is hyphened; mostly in sense ‘with a hollow sound’, as hollow-bellowing, hollow-blustering, hollow-ringing, hollow-sounding, hollow-whispering, etc.; also ‘with a hollow foundation’, as hollow-grounded; hollow-ground a., ground so as to have a concave surface; so hollow-grinding.
1611Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. v. Decay 537 O feeble stay! O hollow grounded hope! 1726–46Thomson Winter 737 The hollow-sounding plain Shakes from afar. Ibid. 989 Muttering, the winds..Blow hollow-blust'ring from the south. 1728–46― Spring 918 The hollow-whispering breeze, the plaint of rills. 1864Tennyson En. Ard. 599 The hollower-bellowing ocean. 1885Army & Navy Co-op. Soc. Price List 1048 The guaranteed razors. Cases containing 2 Hollow Ground. 1937R. W. Fairbrother Text-bk. Med. Bacteriol. ii. 10 In carrying out the examination by direct microscopy use is made of the hollow-ground slide, which is a slide with a hollow of approximately ½ in. ground out on one surface. 1951R. H. Hordern Woodworking Industry Managem. iv. 72 (heading) Hollow-grinding machine. Ibid. 73 This..will produce a hollow-ground bevel on the cutter. There are a number of reasons why hollow grinding is preferable to straight. 1968Gloss. Terms Mechanized & Hand Sheet Metal Work (B.S.I.) 12 Hollow grinding, a method of grinding a tool to produce a concave face or faces behind a cutting edge.
▪ III. hollow, v.1|ˈhɒləʊ|
[f. hollow a.]
1. trans. To render hollow or concave; to make a hollow in; to excavate. Also with out.
c1450R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 415/1 note (MS. Coll. Arms) Suche a stroke cam doune..that hit holwed the stonene walle to a mannes gretnesse. c1477Caxton Jason 20 b, How well the stone is myned and hollowed by continuell droppyng of water. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 55 b, Hollowing it cunninglie with an Aulle or a Bodking. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 46 A rock hollowed out like the entrance to a church. 1784Cowper Task vi. 311 Some lonely elm That age or injury has hollowed deep. 1860Tyndall Glaciers i. xviii. 125 The wall of one [fissure]..was hollowed out longitudinally.
fig.1842Tennyson Love & Duty 60 The want that hollow'd all the heart.
b. To bend into a hollow or concave shape.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. i. iv, Hollow your body more sir, thus. 1832Tennyson Pal. Art 109 Hollowing one hand against his ear, To list a foot-fall. 1889Macm. Mag. Aug. 246/2, I hollowed my hands into the form of a binocular glass.
2. To form by making a hollow (in something); to excavate. Often with out.
1648Herrick Hesper., The Cruell Maid, Next, hollow out a tomb to cover Me. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 19 Who led us into a Grotto hollowed in the Rock. 1796H. Hunter tr. St. Pierre's Stud. Nat. (1799) III. 338 Amphitrite..intreated the Nereids to hollow out that little bay. 1817C. Wolfe Burial Sir J. Moore v, As we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow.
3. To make hollow in tone.
1772Nugent tr. Hist. Fr. Gerund I. 96 Hollowing his voice, and snuffling with much sedate confidence.
4. intr. To become hollow or concave.
c1860Faber Hymn, The Length of Death viii, How suddenly earth seems to hollow. 1892Harper's Mag. 280/2 Her cheeks seemed to hollow in, and her chin shook.
Hence hollowed |ˈhɒləʊd|, ppl. a., made hollow, excavated; ˈhollowing vbl. n., a making hollow, excavation; also attrib., as in hollowing-iron, hollowing-knife, hollowing-machine, etc.
1607Markham Caval. vi. (1617) 64 Make it by a little hollowing to bear..from the false quarter. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 643 In boats made of a hollowed tree (like the Indian Canoas). 1641in T. Lechford Note-bk. (1885) 428 One hollowing iron..one rabbetting iron. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 207 Then first on Seas the hollow'd Alder swam. 1714Addison Spectator No. 584 ⁋6 The digging of Trenches, and the hollowing of Trees, for the better Distribution of Water. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Hollowing-knife (Coopering), a drawing-knife for working on concave surfaces. 1876Clin. Soc. Trans. IX. 191 When the child was made to bend the body, this lumbar hollowing did not disappear. 1884J. Payn Lit. Recoll. 217 His hollowed hand and smiling attentive face. 1889Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 Wooden pipes and hollowed trunks of trees.
▪ IV. hollow, v.2
see hollo v. |