Definition of hollow

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Hollow (v. t.) To make hollow, as by digging, cutting, or engraving; to excavate..

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Flatware :: Flatware (n.) Articles for the table, as china or silverware, that are more or less flat, as distinguished from hollow ware..
Dig :: Dig (v. t.) To hollow out, as a well; to form, as a ditch, by removing earth; to excavate; as, to dig a ditch or a well..
Tymp :: Tymp (n.) A hollow water-cooled iron casting in the upper part of the archway in which the dam stands.
Culm :: Culm (n.) The stalk or stem of grain and grasses (including the bamboo), jointed and usually hollow..
Kussier :: Kussier (n.) (Mus.) A Turkish instrument of music, with a hollow body covered with skin, over which five strings are stretched..
Horn :: Horn (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon 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..
Trumpetwood :: Trumpetwood (n.) A tropical American tree (Cecropia peltata) of the Breadfruit family, having hollow stems, which are used for wind instruments; -- called also snakewood, and trumpet tree..
Channel :: Channel (n.) The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.
Trough :: Trough (n.) A long, hollow vessel, generally for holding water or other liquid, especially one formed by excavating a log longitudinally on one side; a long tray; also, a wooden channel for conveying water, as to a mill wheel..
Bumble :: Bumble (v. i.) To make a hollow or humming noise, like that of a bumblebee; to cry as a bittern..
Emptiness :: Emptiness (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.
Tubicorn :: Tubicorn (n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
Coelodont :: Coelodont (a.) Having hollow teeth; -- said of a group lizards.
Cannon :: Cannon (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently..
Hydrocaulus :: Hydrocaulus (n.) The hollow stem of a hydroid, either simple or branched. See Illust. of Gymnoblastea and Hydroidea..
Boom :: Boom (v. i.) To cry with a hollow note; to make a hollow sound, as the bittern, and some insects..
Alveary :: Alveary (n.) The hollow of the external ear.
Notching :: Notching (n.) The act of making notches; the act of cutting into small hollows.
Cavernous :: Cavernous (a.) Full of caverns; resembling a cavern or large cavity; hollow.
Pipe :: Pipe (n.) Any long tube or hollow body of wood, metal, earthenware, or the like: especially, one used as a conductor of water, steam, gas, etc..
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