Definition of horn

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Horn (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc..

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Pibcorn :: Pibcorn (n.) A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales..
Dishorn :: Dishorn (v. t.) To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle..
Tegulated :: Tegulated (a.) Composed of small plates, as of horn or metal, overlapping like tiles; -- said of a kind of ancient armor..
Thornback :: Thornback (n.) The large European spider crab or king crab (Maia squinado).
Umhofo :: Umhofo (n.) An African two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus, / Rhinoceros, simus); -- called also chukuru, and white rhinoceros..
Inermis :: Inermis (a.) Unarmed; destitute of prickles or thorns, as a leaf..
Cornification :: Cornification (n.) Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn..
Viroled :: Viroled (a.) Furnished with a virole or viroles; -- said of a horn or a bugle when the rings are of different tincture from the rest of the horn.
Thorn :: Thorn (n.) Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn..
Alaternus :: Alaternus (n.) An ornamental evergreen shrub (Rhamnus alaternus) belonging to the buckthorns.
Maybush :: Maybush (n.) The hawthorn.
Wanhorn :: Wanhorn (n.) An East Indian plant (Kaempferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.
Calamary :: Calamary (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid..
Gems-horn :: Gems-horn (n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.
Cabree :: Cabree (n.) The pronghorn antelope.
Chaparral :: Chaparral (n.) An almost impenetrable thicket or succession of thickets of thorny shrubs and brambles.
Thorny :: Thorny (superl.) Like a thorn or thorns; hence, figuratively, troublesome; vexatious; harassing; perplexing..
Emodin :: Emodin (n.) An orange-red crystalline substance, C15H10O5, obtained from the buckthorn, rhubarb, etc., and regarded as a derivative of anthraquinone; -- so called from a species of rhubarb (Rheum emodei)..
Yt :: Yt () an old method of printing that (AS. /aet, /aet) the y taking the place of the old letter thorn (/). Cf. Ye, the..
Subhumerate :: Subhornblendic (a.) Containing hornblende in a scattered state; of or relating to rocks containing disseminated hornblende.
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