Definition of horn

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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..

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Bison :: Bison (n.) The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers..
Maybloom :: Maybloom (n.) The hawthorn.
Bez-antler :: Bez-antler (n.) The second branch of a stag's horn.
Picrite :: Picrite (n.) A dark green igneous rock, consisting largely of chrysolite, with hornblende, augite, biotite, etc..
Coleoptera :: Coleoptera (n. pl.) An order of insects having the anterior pair of wings (elytra) hard and horny, and serving as coverings for the posterior pair, which are membranous, and folded transversely under the others when not in use. The mouth parts form two pairs of jaws (mandibles and maxillae) adapted for chewing. Most of the Coleoptera are known as beetles and weevils..
Goat :: Goat (n.) A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, flesh, and skin..
Horner :: Horner (n.) The British sand lance or sand eel (Ammodytes lanceolatus).
Booted :: Booted (a.) Having an undivided, horny, bootlike covering; -- said of the tarsus of some birds..
Water Beech :: Water beech () The American hornbeam. See Hornbeam.
Cornification :: Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn..
Beam :: Beam (n.) The principal stem or horn of a stag or other deer, which bears the antlers, or branches..
Whitethorn :: Whitethorn (n.) The hawthorn.
Hornless :: Hornless (a.) Having no horn.
Cornuto :: Cornuto (n.) A man that wears the horns; a cuckold.
Borele :: Borele (n.) The smaller two-horned rhinoceros of South Africa (Atelodus bicornis).
Pectic :: Pectic (a.) Of or pertaining to pectin; specifically, designating an acid obtained from ordinary vegetable jelly (pectin) as an amorphous substance, tough and horny when dry, but gelatinous when moist..
Ceratosaurus :: Ceratosaurus (n.) A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the European Megalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and the skull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. See Illustration in Appendix..
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..
Horn :: Horn (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Hornbeak :: Hornbeak (n.) A fish. See Hornfish.
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