Part 867

Syn.- Concave; sunken; low; vacant; empty; void; false; faithless; deceitful; treacherous.

Hol"low (?), n. 1. A cavity, natural or artificial; an unfilled space within anything; a hole, a cavern; an excavation; as the hollow of the hand or of a tree.

2. A low spot surrounded by elevations; a depressed part of a surface; a concavity; a channel.

Forests grew Upon the barren hollows.

Prior.

I hate the dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

Tennyson.

Hol"low, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hollowed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Hollowing.] To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate. "Trees rudely hollowed." Dryden.

Hol"low, adv. Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.]

The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence.

Darwin.

Hol*low" (?), interj. [See Hollo.] Hollo.

Hol"low (?), v. i. To shout; to hollo.

Whisperings and hollowings are alike to a deaf ear.

Fuller.

Hol"low, v. t. To urge or call by shouting.

He has hollowed the hounds.

Sir W. Scott.

Hol"low-heart`ed (?), a. Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within.

Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.

Hol"low-horned` (?), a. (Zoˆl.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

Hol"low*ly, adv. Insincerely; deceitfully. Shak.

Hol"low*ness, n. 1. State of being hollow. Bacon.

2. Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery. South.

Hol"ly (?), adv. Wholly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hol"ly (hl"l), n. [OE holi, holin, AS. holen, holegn; akin to D. & G. hulst, OHG. huls hulis, W. celyn, Armor. kelen, Gael. cuilionn, Ir. cuileann. Cf. 1st Holm, Hulver.] 1. (Bot.) A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aquifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.

The holly is much used to adorn churches and houses, at Christmas time, and hence is associated with scenes of good will and rejoicing. It is an evergreen tree, and has a finegrained, heavy, white wood. Its bark is used as a febrifuge, and the berries are violently purgative and emetic. The American holly is the Ilex opaca, and is found along the coast of the United States, from Maine southward. Gray.

2. (Bot.) The holm oak. See 1st Holm.