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Horn 1

Definition: 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.

Horn 2

Definition: The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

Horn 3

Definition: Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.

Horn 4

Definition: An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

Horn 5

Definition: Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

Horn 6

Definition: A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.

Horn 7

Definition: A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.

Horn 8

Definition: The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.

Horn 9

Definition: A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.

Horn 10

Definition: The pointed beak of an anvil.

Horn 11

Definition: The Ionic volute.

Horn 12

Definition: The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.

Horn 13

Definition: A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.

Horn 14

Definition: One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

Horn 15

Definition: One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

Horn 16

Definition: The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Horn 17

Definition: The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

Horn 18

Definition: A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

Horn 19

Definition: An emblem of a cuckold; used chiefly in the plural.

Horn 20

Definition: To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

Horn 21

Definition: To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

horn 22

Definition: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

horn 23

Definition: any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn

horn 24

Definition: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

horn 25

Definition: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

horn 26

Definition: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

horn 27

Definition: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

horn 28

Definition: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

horn 29

Definition: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

horn 30

Definition: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

horn 31

Definition: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

horn 32

Definition: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"

 

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