Word Finder - hollow

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A small valley between mountains.

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He built himself a cabin in a hollow high up in the Rockies.

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A sunken area or unfilled space in something solid; a cavity, natural or artificial.

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the hollow of the hand or of a tree

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A sunken area.

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A feeling of emptiness.

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a hollow in the pit of one's stomach

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To make a hole in something; to excavate

The blue-bird makes her nest in a hollow tree and her eggs are blue.

The dirt hit his body with a hollow thud.

The skull looked up through hollow eyes, just as the flashlight died, plunging the pair into a blackened void of darkness.

In this way two cavalry regiments galloped through the Semenovsk hollow and as soon as they reached the top of the incline turned round and galloped full speed back again.

Where a large-celled pith is developed this often becomes obvious very early, and in some cases it appears to have separate initials situated below those of the hollow vascular cylinder.

It made her feel hollow.

So high as heaved the tumid hills, so low Down sunk a hollow bottom broad and deep, Capacious bed of waters.

Two of the does had hollow looking stomachs and their udders were shiny.

You see down there where the rows of hay are lying in the hollow, there's the bridge.

They nest in hollow trees, and lay white eggs.

The tentacles are usually hollow, rarely solid (Obelia) .

Dan leaned back into the hollow of the tree in which they'd taken refuge.

In front, beyond a hollow dale, could be seen the enemy's columns and guns.

The cups are placed symmetrically on the end of the arms, and it is easy to see that the wind always has the hollow of one cup presented to it; the back of the cup on the opposite end of the cross also faces the wind, but the pressure on it is naturally less, and hence a continual rotation is produced; each cup in turn as it comes round providing the necessary force.

Where internal phloem is present this is separated from the internal endodermis by an endocycle or internal pericycle, as it is sometimes called, and from the xylem by an internal mesocyclethese two layers, together with the outer mesocycle and pericycle, constituting the conjunctive tissue of the now hollow cylindrical stele.

The inner membrane is continuous with the wall of the hollow thread at a spot immediately below the aperture in the outer wall, so that the thread itself (f) is simply a hollow prolongation of the wall of the inner capsule inverted and pushed into its cavity.

The gonads (g) are produced on the manubrium, which has a hollow endodermal axis, termed the spadix (sp.), in open communication with the coenosarc of the polyp-colony and serving for the nutrition of the generative cells.

There was a man in my neighborhood who lived in a hollow tree.

Where a number of small torrents converge in a steep mountain recess, they cut out a crescent-shaped hollow or halfcauldron, which in the Scottish Highlands is known as a corrie.

In internal structure grass-culms, save in being hollow, conform to that usual in monocotyledons; the vascular bundles run parallel in the internodes, but a horizontal interlacement occurs at the nodes.

The cup-shaped involucre of Cornucopia is a dilatation of the axis into a hollow receptacle with a raised border.

The germ-sheath grows vertically upwards, its stiff apex pushing through the soil, while the plumule is hidden in its hollow interior.

In a few verses the "wrestling" ('-b -k) of Jacob (ya'agob) is associated with the Jabbok ()labboq); his "striving" explains his name Israel; at Peniel he sees "the face of God," and when touched on his vulnerable spot - the hollow of the thigh - he is lamed, hence "the children of Israel eat not the sinew of the hip which is upon the hollow of the thigh unto this day" (xxxii.

It is situated at the head of the long valley of Holmsdale Hollow, beneath the North Downs.

The Annelidan affinities are superficially indicated in so marked a manner by the thinness of the cuticle, the dermomuscular body-wall, the hollow appendages, that, as already stated, many of the earlier zoologists who examined Peripatus placed it among the segmented worms; and the discovery that there is some solid morphological basis for this determination constitutes one of the most interesting points of the recent work on the genus.

Brain large, with two ventral hollow appendages; ventral cords widely divaricated, without distinct ganglia.

In common with the other monotremes, the male echidna has its heel provided with a sharp hollow spur, connected with a secreting gland, and with muscles capable of pressing the secretion from the gland into the spur.

The lake is formed in a deep hollow surrounded by limestone mountains, and is drained on the south by the Bistritza, a large river which flows S.E.

A convex lens of rockcrystal was found by Layard among the ruins of the palace of Nimrud; Seneca describes hollow spheres of glass filled with water as being commonly used as magnifiers.

The cells are flat and constructed of galvanized iron, so as to form a hollow space of about 2 in.

The common casts of Calamites are of this nature, representing the form of the hollow medulla, and bearing on their surface the print of the nodal constrictions and of the ridges and furrows on the inner surface of the wood.

The boghead of Scotland, Autun and New South Wales is regarded by Renault and Bertrand as mainly composed of gelatinous Algae (Piles and Reinschia), having a hollow, saccate thallus formed of a single layer of cells.

Teeth hollow, with simple or only slightly folded walls.

Jassy itself stands pleasantly amid vineyards and gardens, partly on two hills, partly in the hollow between.

The female produces three to five young ones in March or April, and brings them up in a nest formed of grass or other herbage, usually placed in a hollow place in the bank of a river, or under the shelter of the roots of some overhanging tree.

Probably the hollow fennel stalk in which fire was carried got its place in myth from the very fact of its common use.

Andre appeared before her suddenly, and she stopped.  The phantom looked at her then past her.  Katie glanced back without seeing anything.  The phantom had moved when her gaze returned to where he had been.  He stood a short distance away, pointed to a small hollow in a tree then took up a protective position several feet away, watching the way she'd come.

There was no way she was sleeping tonight, even if she didn't feel any threat from the phantom.  She definitely didn't feel safe without Gabriel there.  She hesitated before going to where the ghost indicated, not wanting to continue without Gabe.  Popping a food cube, Katie huddled in the hollow of the tree and waited.

The phantom stayed with Katie throughout the night and into the first light of morning.  Katie didn't sleep, not with the creepy phantom and no sign of Gabriel.  She huddled in the hollow of the tree by the lake, praying for Gabe to reappear.

It was that hollow sound of an electrical storm.

Her own death stared at her through golden eyes, and she had cared for nothing but feeling his hot skin against hers, sating the ache of the sacred hollow between her thighs, and cooling the lightning burning in her blood!

Construction Process A hollow stemmed continuous flight auger is rotated into the ground to the required depth.

The force of the blast bursts the trunk apart, often leaving a hollow bole and gnarled and withered trunks.

I saw a tallow candle on a hollow in the walls, its flame barely lighting the cavern.

A central venous catheter, also called a central line is a long fine hollow tube with an opening at each end.

A copper cold finger, attached to a hollow copper cathode, is cooled using liquid nitrogen.

The gynecologist opens (dilates) the cervix with instruments called dilators, and then inserts a hollow tube through the cervix with instruments called dilators, and then inserts a hollow tube through the cervix.

He hopes to depict David Cameron as a hollow chancer with ' namby-pamby policies on chocolate oranges ' .

Sometimes they roost in the lining of tall disused industrial chimneys and other hollow walls including cavities in bridges.

The hollow near the center is probably the site of a robbed burial cist.