Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Juwansa :: Juwansa (n.) The camel's thorn. See under Camel.
Water Beech :: Water beech () The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
Cerargyrite :: Cerargyrite (n.) Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knife, like lead or horn (hence called horn silver)..
Screamer :: Screamer (n.) Any one of three species of South American birds constituting the family Anhimidae, and the suborder Palamedeae. They have two spines on each wing, and the head is either crested or horned. They are easily tamed, and then serve as guardians for other poultry. The crested screamers, or chajas, belong to the genus Chauna. The horned screamer, or kamichi, is Palamedea cornuta..
Spinosity :: Spinose (a.) Full of spines; armed with thorns; thorny.
Ecce Homo :: Ecce homo () A picture which represents the Savior as given up to the people by Pilate, and wearing a crown of thorns..
Dishorn :: Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle..
Borele :: Borele (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
Maybloom :: Maybloom (n.) The hawthorn.
Hardbeam :: Hardbeam (n.) A tree of the genus Carpinus, of compact, horny texture; hornbeam..
Tauricornous :: Tauricornous (a.) Having horns like those of a bull.
Diorite :: Diorite (n.) An igneous, crystalline in structure, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and hornblende. It includes part of what was called greenstone..
Nail :: Nail (n.) The terminal horny plate on the beak of ducks, and other allied birds..
Eurycerous :: Eurycerous (a.) Having broad horns.
Squamate :: Squamata (n. pl.) A division of edentates having the body covered with large, imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins..
Nasicornous :: Nasicornous (a.) Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros..
Cerite :: Cerite (n.) A gastropod shell belonging to the family Cerithiidae; -- so called from its hornlike form.
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..
Cornu Ammonis :: Cornu Ammonis () A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite..
Nott :: Nott (a.) Shorn.
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