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Mull :: Mull (n.) A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Subcorneous :: Subcorneous (a.) Situated under a horny part or layer.

Dishorn :: Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle..

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

Stinking :: Stinkhorn (n.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor..

Buckthorn :: Buckthorn (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc..

Urus :: Urus (n.) A very large, powerful, and savage extinct bovine animal (Bos urus / primigenius) anciently abundant in Europe. It appears to have still existed in the time of Julius Caesar. It had very large horns, and was hardly capable of domestication. Called also, ur, ure, and tur..

Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Ceratosaurus :: Ceratosaurus (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix..

Battledoor :: Battledoor (n.) A child's hornbook.

Hog :: Hog (n.) A young sheep that has not been shorn.

Juwansa :: Juwansa (n.) The camel's thorn. See under Camel.

Exoskeleton :: Exoskeleton (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton..

Koodoo :: Koodoo (n.) A large South African antelope (Strepsiceros kudu). The males have graceful spiral horns, sometimes four feet long. The general color is reddish or grayish brown, with eight or nine white bands on each side, and a pale dorsal stripe. The old males become dark bluish gray, due to the skin showing through the hair. The females are hornless. Called also nellut..

Corniculum :: Corniculum (n.) A small hornlike part or process.

Bombardon :: Bombardon (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide..

Crocidolite :: Crocidolite (n.) A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers..

Diorite :: Diorite (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone..

Hornbook :: Hornbook (n.) The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often the Lord's Prayer, were written or printed; a primer..

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