Horn

Definition:

  • (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.
  • (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
  • (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
  • (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  • (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a 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.
  • (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
  • (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
  • (n.) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
  • (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
  • (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
  • (n.) The Ionic volute.
  • (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  • (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  • (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  • (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
  • (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
  • (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.
  • (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
  • (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
  • (v. t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
  • (v. t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

Compare horn with other words:

horn vs. orn

horn vs. norn

horn vs. sorn

hern vs. horn

dorn vs. horn

horn vs. lorn

horn vs. morn

corn vs. horn

horn vs. thorn

horn vs. worn

horn vs. torn

horn vs. shorn

born vs. horn

hoot vs. horn

dodded vs. horn

horn vs. kamichi

horn vs. unicornous

horn vs. virole

horn vs. viroled

horn vs. kerasine

horn vs. powderhorn

horn vs. nasicornous

horn vs. zamouse

cornuted vs. horn

horn vs. pygarg

horn vs. hornify

cavicorn vs. horn

horn vs. keratogenous

bicorn vs. horn

horn vs. muley

horn vs. horning

cowfish vs. horn

dehorn vs. horn

horn vs. spike

horn vs. siren

horn vs. tuba

antenna vs. horn

bump vs. horn

buzzer vs. horn

horn vs. megaphone

cathead vs. horn

horn vs. increscent

decrescent vs. horn

cornist vs. horn

corniplume vs. horn

corniform vs. horn

cornified vs. horn

cornification vs. horn

cornific vs. horn

cornicle vs. horn

brocket vs. horn

horn vs. pollard

cornigerous vs. horn

beamy vs. horn

bighorn vs. horn

fraying vs. horn

horn vs. hornbook

horn vs. lorica

horn vs. scur

corniculum vs. horn

horn vs. tind

honk vs. horn

greenhorn vs. horn

grandpa vs. horn

horn vs. whistle

horn vs. kitten

horn vs. kangaroo

horn vs. stinger

corny vs. horn

horn vs. olifant

faun vs. horn

bugle vs. horn

gore vs. horn

horn vs. knag

horn vs. viking

horn vs. horniness

horn vs. narwhal

horn vs. poll

horn vs. hornbill

horn vs. toot

core vs. horn

horn vs. tooter

horn vs. tine

horn vs. mull

horn vs. tegulated

bud vs. horn

bulldog vs. horn

beep vs. horn

horn vs. tour

cornucopia vs. horn

horn vs. unicorn

cornu vs. horn

antelope vs. horn

horn vs. shoehorn

horn vs. horny

horn vs. hornwort

horn vs. hornless

horn vs. horned

cuckold vs. horn

horn vs. stiffy

horn vs. phone

blower vs. horn

funnel vs. horn

hooter vs. horn

erection vs. horn

horn vs. peninsula

brass vs. horn

horn vs. telephone

horn vs. wave

conical vs. horn

alarm vs. horn

animal vs. horn

horn vs. musical

horn vs. keratin

head vs. horn

gnu vs. horn

armor vs. horn

horn vs. rhinoceros

horn vs. poop

antler vs. horn

apply vs. horn

horn vs. wind