Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg..

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Bass Horn :: Bass horn () A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone..
Postcornu :: Postcornu (n.) The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Callithump :: Callithump (n.) A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari..
Laminiplantar :: Laminiplantar (a.) Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks..
Thornback :: Thornback (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
Horn :: Horn (n.) The Ionic volute.
Thornbut :: Thornbut (n.) The turbot.
Mohr :: Mohr (n.) A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar..
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more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle..
Cactus :: Cactus (n.) Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America..
Gneiss :: Gneiss (n.) A crystalline rock, consisting, like granite, of quartz, feldspar, and mica, but having these materials, especially the mica, arranged in planes, so that it breaks rather easily into coarse slabs or flags. Hornblende sometimes takes the place of the mica, and it is then called hornblendic / syenitic gneiss. Similar varieties of related rocks are also called gneiss..
Hornbug :: Hornbug (n.) A large nocturnal beetle of the genus Lucanus (as L. capreolus, and L. dama), having long, curved upper jaws, resembling a sickle. The grubs are found in the trunks of old trees..
Nott :: Nott (a.) Shorn.
Moloch :: Moloch (n.) A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.
Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales..
Corniculum :: Corniculum (n.) A small hornlike part or process.
Anglice :: Anglice (adv.) In English; in the English manner; as, Livorno, Anglice Leghorn..
Phallus :: Phallus (n.) A genus of fungi which have a fetid and disgusting odor; the stinkhorn.
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Ward-corn :: Ward-corn (n.) The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise..
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