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Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle..

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Phallus :: Phallus (n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.
Keratosa :: Keratosa (n. pl.) An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.
Rattlesnake :: Rattlesnake (n.) Any one of several species of venomous American snakes belonging to the genera Crotalus and Caudisona, or Sistrurus. They have a series of horny interlocking joints at the end of the tail which make a sharp rattling sound when shaken. The common rattlesnake of the Northern United States (Crotalus horridus), and the diamond rattlesnake of the South (C. adamanteus), are the best known. See Illust. of Fang..
Tubicornous :: Tubicornous (a.) Having hollow horns.
Core :: Core (n.) The bony process which forms the central axis of the horns in many animals.
Fleece :: Fleece (n.) The entire coat of wood that covers a sheep or other similar animal; also, the quantity shorn from a sheep, or animal, at one time..
Unicorn :: Unicorn (n.) A two-horned animal of some unknown kind, so called in the Authorized Version of the Scriptures..
Tubicorn :: Tubicorn (n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
Horny-handed :: Horny-handed (a.) Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
Sea Purse :: Sea purse () The horny egg case of a skate, and of certain sharks..
Shoehorn :: Shoehorn (n.) Alt. of Shoeing-hor.
Plumicorn :: Plumicorn (n.) An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls..
Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..
Nail :: Nail (n.) the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes.
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.
Mull :: Mull (n.) A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Cohorn :: Cohorn (n.) See Coehorn.
Subcorneous :: Subcorneous (a.) Situated under a horny part or layer.
Dishorn :: Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle..
Horn :: Horn (n.) 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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