Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

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Hornfish :: Hornfish (n.) The garfish or sea needle.
Beak :: Beak (n.) The bill or nib of a bird, consisting of a horny sheath, covering the jaws. The form varied much according to the food and habits of the bird, and is largely used in the classification of birds..
Sea Poppy :: Sea poppy () The horn poppy. See under Horn.
Tubicorn :: Tubicorn (n.) Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.
Thorn :: Thorn (v. t.) To prick, as with a thorn..
Rhamphotheca :: Rhamphotheca (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Viroled :: Viroled (a.) Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Sucker :: Sucker (n.) A greenhorn; one easily gulled.
Gnathotheca :: Gnathotheca (n.) The horney covering of the lower mandible of a bird.
Hornpipe :: Hornpipe (n.) A lively tune played on a hornpipe, for dancing; a tune adapted for such playing..
Hyoscyamine :: Hyoscyamine (n.) An alkaloid found in henbane (Hyoscyamus niger), and regarded as its active principle. It is also found with other alkaloids in the thorn apple and deadly nightshade. It is extracted as a white crystalline substance, with a sharp, offensive taste. Hyoscyamine is isomeric with atropine, is very poisonous, and is used as a medicine for neuralgia, like belladonna. Called also hyoscyamia, duboisine, etc..
Hornblendic :: Hornblendic (a.) Composed largely of hornblende; resembling or relating to hornblende.
Thornbill :: Thornbill (n.) Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane..
Shoeing-horn :: Shoeing-horn (n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe..
Cavicorn :: Cavicorn (a.) Having hollow horns.
Spinulose :: Spinulescent (a.) Having small spines; somewhat thorny.
Horn :: Horn (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
Calomel :: Calomel (n.) Mild chloride of mercury, Hg2Cl2, a heavy, white or yellowish white substance, insoluble and tasteless, much used in medicine as a mercurial and purgative; mercurous chloride. It occurs native as the mineral horn quicksilver..
Markhoor :: Markhoor (n.) A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere..
Cockspur :: Cockspur (n.) A variety of Crataegus, or hawthorn (C. Crus-galli), having long, straight thorns; -- called also Cockspur thorn..
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