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  • English Word Hollowly Definition Insincerely; deceitfully.
  • English Word Hollowness Definition State of being hollow.
  • English Word Hollowness Definition Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.
  • English Word Holly Definition Wholly.
  • English Word Holly Definition A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
  • English Word Holly Definition The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
  • English Word Hollyhock Definition A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
  • English Word Holm Definition A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
  • English Word Holm Definition An islet in a river.
  • English Word Holm Definition Low, flat land.
  • English Word Holmia Definition An oxide of holmium.
  • English Word Holmium Definition A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.
  • English Word Holmos Definition A name given to a vase having a rounded body
  • English Word Holmos Definition A closed vessel of nearly spherical form on a high stem or pedestal.
  • English Word Holmos Definition A drinking cup having a foot and stem.
  • English Word Holo- Definition A combining form fr. Gr. "o`los whole.
  • English Word Holoblast Definition an ovum composed entirely of germinal matter. See Meroblast.
  • English Word Holoblastic Definition Undergoing complete segmentation; composed entirely of germinal matter, the whole of the yolk undergoing fission; -- opposed to meroblastic.
  • English Word Holocaust Definition A burnt sacrifice; an offering, the whole of which was consumed by fire, among the Jews and some pagan nations.
  • English Word Holocaust Definition Sacrifice or loss of many lives, as by the burning of a theater or a ship. [An extended use not authorized by careful writers.]
  • English Word Holocephali Definition An order of elasmobranch fishes, including, among living species, only the chimaeras; -- called also Holocephala. See Chimaera; also Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Holocryptic Definition Wholly or completely concealing; incapable of being deciphered.
  • English Word Holocrystalline Definition Completely crystalline; -- said of a rock like granite, all the constituents of which are crystalline.
  • English Word Holograph Definition A document, as a letter, deed, or will, wholly in the handwriting of the person from whom it proceeds and whose act it purports to be.
  • English Word Holographic Definition Of the nature of a holograph; pertaining to holographs.
  • English Word Holohedral Definition Having all the planes required by complete symmetry, -- in opposition to hemihedral.
  • English Word Holohemihedral Definition Presenting hemihedral forms, in which all the sectants have halt the whole number of planes.
  • English Word Holometabola Definition Those insects which have a complete metamorphosis; metabola.
  • English Word Holometabolic Definition Having a complete metamorphosis;-said of certain insects, as the butterflies and bees.
  • English Word Holometer Definition An instrument for making of angular measurements.