Emily Dickinson Lexicon

HOL'LOW, n.

1. A cavity, natural or artificial; any depression of surface in a body; concavity; as, the hollow of the hand.
2. A place excavated; as, the hollow of a tree.
3. A cave or cavern; a den; a hole; a broad open space in any thing. Shak. Prior.
4. A pit. Addison.
5. Open space of any thing; a groove; a channel; a canal. Addison.