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Horn 1Definition: 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 2Definition: The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. Horn 3Definition: 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 4Definition: An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). Horn 5Definition: Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn Horn 6Definition: 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 Horn 7Definition: A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. Horn 8Definition: The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. Horn 9Definition: A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. Horn 10Definition: The pointed beak of an anvil. Horn 11Definition: The Ionic volute. Horn 12Definition: The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. Horn 13Definition: A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. Horn 14Definition: One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. Horn 15Definition: One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped. Horn 16Definition: The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. Horn 17Definition: 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 18Definition: A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. Horn 19Definition: An emblem of a cuckold; used chiefly in the plural. Horn 20Definition: To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to. Horn 21Definition: To cause to wear horns; to cuckold. horn 22Definition: one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates horn 23Definition: any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn horn 24Definition: a device on an automobile for making a warning noise horn 25Definition: a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves horn 26Definition: a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves horn 27Definition: an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound horn 28Definition: a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) horn 29Definition: a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it horn 30Definition: a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; horn 31Definition: the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails horn 32Definition: stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"
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