Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle..

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Water Hyacinth :: Water hyacinth () Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genus Eichhornia, related to the pickerel weed..
Hornowl :: Hornowl (n.) See Horned Owl.
Needly :: Needly (a.) Like a needle or needles; as, a needly horn; a needly beard..
Distemper :: Distemper (v. t.) A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle..
Tube-nosed :: Tube-nosed (a.) Having the nostrils prolonged in the form of horny tubes along the sides of the beak; -- said of certain sea birds.
Hornbeam :: Hornbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus (C. Americana), having a smooth gray bark and a ridged trunk, the wood being white and very hard. It is common along the banks of streams in the United States, and is also called ironwood. The English hornbeam is C. Betulus. The American is called also blue beech and water beech..
Tout :: Tout (v. i.) To toot a horn.
Beamy :: Beamy (a.) Having horns, or antlers..
Corymb :: Corymb (n.) A flat-topped or convex cluster of flowers, each on its own footstalk, and arising from different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn..
Whiffler :: Whiffler (n.) An officer who went before procession to clear the way by blowing a horn, or otherwise; hence, any person who marched at the head of a procession; a harbinger..
Krummhorn :: Krummhorn (n.) Alt. of Krumhor.
Gorgonia :: Gorgonia (n.) A genus of Gorgoniacea, formerly very extensive, but now restricted to such species as the West Indian sea fan (Gorgonia flabellum), sea plume (G. setosa), and other allied species having a flexible, horny axis..
Thornbird :: Thornbird (n.) A small South American bird (Anumbius anumbii) allied to the ovenbirds of the genus Furnarius). It builds a very large and complex nest of twigs and thorns in a bush or tree.
Shrike :: Shrike (v. i.) Any one of numerous species of oscinine birds of the family Laniidae, having a strong hooked bill, toothed at the tip. Most shrikes are insectivorous, but the common European gray shrike (Lanius excubitor), the great northern shrike (L. borealis), and several others, kill mice, small birds, etc., and often impale them on thorns, and are, on that account called also butcher birds. See under Butcher..
Anoa :: Anoa (n.) A small wild ox of Celebes (Anoa depressicornis), allied to the buffalo, but having long nearly straight horns..
Tubinares :: Tubinares (n. pl.) A tribe of sea birds comprising the petrels, shearwaters, albatrosses, hagdons, and allied birds having tubular horny nostrils..
Horned :: Horned (a.) Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn..
Thornset :: Thornset (a.) Set with thorns.
Thornless :: Thornless (a.) Destitute of, or free from, thorns..
Lorica :: Lorica (n.) A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like..
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