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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Vespa :: Vespa (n.) A genus of Hymenoptera including the common wasps and hornets.
Maybush :: Maybush (n.) The hawthorn.
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..
Buckthorn :: Buckthorn (n.) A genus (Rhamnus) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus.
Cor/niculate :: Cor/niculate (a.) Having processes resembling small horns.
Booted :: Booted (a.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds..
Hornpout :: Hornpout (n.) See Horned pout, under Horned..
Schist :: Schist (n.) Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure (see Foliation) and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates. The common kinds are mica schist, and hornblendic schist, consisting chiefly of quartz with mica or hornblende and often feldspar..
Spinosity :: Spinose (a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.
Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..
Horn :: Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Crackle :: Crackle (v. i.) To make slight cracks; to make small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle..
Narwhal :: Narwhal (n.) An arctic cetacean (Monodon monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side..
Unicorn :: Unicorn (n.) Any large beetle having a hornlike prominence on the head or prothorax.
Cornigerous :: Cornigerous (a.) Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals..
Cornification :: Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn..
Quick :: Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge..
Redhorn :: Redhorn (n.) Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennae are usually red.
Tinet :: Tinet (n.) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
Keratophyte :: Keratophyte (n.) A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.
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