HORN
\hˈɔːn], \hˈɔːn], \h_ˈɔː_n]\
Definitions of HORN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
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any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn
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an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
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a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
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a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
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a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
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the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
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stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer"
By Princeton University
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a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
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any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn
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an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
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a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
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a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
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a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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.
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The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
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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.
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An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
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Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
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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.
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A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
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The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
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A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
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The pointed beak of an anvil.
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The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
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The Ionic volute.
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The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
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A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
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One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
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The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
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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.
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A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
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To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
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To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
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An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.
By Oddity Software
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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.
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The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
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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.
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An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
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Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
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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.
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A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
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The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
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A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
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The pointed beak of an anvil.
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The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
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The Ionic volute.
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The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
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A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
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One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
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One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
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The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
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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.
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A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
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To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
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To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
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An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
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A hard and usually pointed projection, growing upon the head of certain animals, especially cattle; goats, deer, etc.; the material of which animals horns are composed; a thickened form of tissue; a musical wind-instrument; one of the extremities or ends of the moon when in crescent form.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The hard substance projecting from the heads of certain animals, as oxen, etc.: something made of or like a horn: a symbol of strength: (mus.) a wind-instrument consisting of a coiled brass tube.
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To furnish with horns.
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HORNED.
By Daniel Lyons
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Hard pointed growth on an animal's head; any projection like a horn; cusp of the moon; wind instrument.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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A bone like projecting growth on the head of an animal, as an ox or deer.
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Something made of horn, or likened to an animal's horn, as a trumpet.
By James Champlin Fernald
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The process on the head of many animals; any projection from an animal resembling a horn; a tuft of feathers as in an owl; a spine in fishes; a tentacle in snails; an awn; any pointed projection or process.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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One of the hard, pointed bodies which grow on the heads of some graminivorous quadrupeds and serve them for weapons.
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Any horn shaped structure.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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n. [Anglo-Saxon, Icelandic, Gothic, Latin, Greek] A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing from the heads of certain animals;—the antenna of an insect; the feeler of a snail;—an extremity of the moon when waxing or waning;—a wind instrument of music;—a drinking-cup;—a utensil for holding powder;—the material of which horns are composed;—a symbol of strength, power, exaltation.
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The hard pointed bodies which grow on the heads of some quadrupeds, and serve them for weapons; an instrument of wind musick made of horn; the extremity of the waxing or waning moon; the feelers of a snail ; a drinking cup made of horn; antler of a cuckold; Horn mad, perhaps mad as a cuckold.
By Thomas Sheridan
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