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Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) 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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Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing..

Mote :: Mote (n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort..

Mastax :: Mastax (n.) The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food..

Weapon :: Weapon (n.) A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants are furnished..

Horn-mad :: Horn-mad (a.) Quite mad; -- raving crazy.

Horn :: Horn (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..

Hornsnake :: Hornsnake (n.) A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below..

Narwhal :: Narwhal (n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side..

Spinous :: Spinous (a.) Spinose; thorny.

Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales..

Tout :: Tout (v. i.) To toot a horn.

Sea Purse :: Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks..

Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..

Tauricornous :: Tauricornous (a.) Having horns like those of a bull.

Hollow-horned :: Hollow-horned (a.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle..

Beaverteen :: Beaverteen (n.) A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing..

Maid :: Maid (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata)..

Cornu Ammonis :: Cornu Ammonis () A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite..

Shorn :: Shorn () p. p. of Shear.