Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn..

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Hornel :: Hornel (n.) The European sand eel.
Bugle Horn :: Bugle horn () A drinking vessel made of horn.
Sea Poppy :: Sea poppy () The horn poppy. See under Horn.
Hornblower :: Hornblower (n.) One who, or that which, blows a horn..
Tinet :: Tinet (n.) Brushwood and thorns for making and repairing hedges.
Haythorn :: Haythorn (n.) Hawthorn.
Reciprocornous :: Reciprocornous (a.) Having horns turning backward and then forward, like those of a ram..
May :: May (n.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn..
Christ''s-thorn :: Christ's-thorn (n.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns..
Cornific :: Cornific (a.) Producing horns; forming horn.
Tout :: Tout (v. i.) To toot a horn.
Dodded :: Dodded (a.) Without horns; as, dodded cattle; without beards; as, dodded corn..
Rheinberry :: Rheinberry (n.) One of the berries or drupes of the European buckthorn; also, the buckthorn itself..
Horn :: Horn (n.) A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape..
Hornobbed :: Hornobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Hobno.
Horn :: Horn (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed..
Syenite :: Syenite (n.) Orig., a rock composed of quartz, hornblende, and feldspar, anciently quarried at Syene, in Upper Egypt, and now called granite..
Thorn :: Thorn (n.) The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine..
Push :: Push (v. i.) To make a thrust; to shove; as, to push with the horns or with a sword..
Chouka :: Chouka (n.) The Indian four-horned antelope; the chikara.
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