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Horn
HORN, n. [L. cornu]
1. A hard substance growing on the heads of certain animals, and particularly on cloven-footed quadrupeds; usually projecting to some length and terminating in a point. Horns are generally bent or curving, and those of some animals are spiral. They serve for weapons of offense and defense. The substance of horns is gelatinous, and in Papin's digester it may be converted into jelly.
Horn is an animal substance, chiefly membranous, consisting of coagulated albumen, with a little gelatin and phosphate of lime.
The horns of deer possess exactly the properties of bone,and are composed of the same constituents, only the proportion of cartilage is greater.
2. A wind instrument of music, made of horn; a trumpet. Such were used by the Israelites.
3. In modern times, a wind instrument made of metal.
4. An extremity of the moon, when it is waxing or waning, and forming a crescent.
5. The feeler or antenna of an insect.
6. The feeler of a snail, which may be withdrawn; hence, to pull or draw in the horns, is to repress one's ardor, or to restrain pride.
7. A drinking cup; horns being used anciently for cups.
8. A winding stream.
9. Horns, in the plural, is used to characterize a cuckold.
He wears the horns.
10. In Scripture, horn is a symbol of strength or power.
The horn of Moab is cut off. Jer 48.
Horn is also an emblem of glory, honor, dignity.
My horn is exalted in the Lord. 1 Sam 2.
In Daniel, horn represents a kingdom or state.
horn appears in definitions for these words:
Abada Abagun Actinolite Adnata Agate Agatized Altar Ammonite Amphibole Anhima Antelope Antennae Antler Aphis Argent-horned Armature Armed Attire Augite Babyroussa Basaltine Battle-door Bead-maker Beak Beamy Belemnite Bezantler Bicorn Bicornous Biggel Bison Blow Boops Bos Branch Broad-horned Bronzite Brow Buceros Buckshorn Bud Bugle Bunt Burr Call Camel Camelopard Carinthin Cassowary Cattle Celandine Cerastes Chert Comb Coralloidal Cornage Cornea Cornel Cornel-tree Cornelian-tree Corneous Corner Cornet Cornicle Corniculate Cornigerous Cornist Cornucopia Cornute Cornuted Cornuto Corny Crescent Croches Crotch Cusp Cuttle-fish Dishorn Dishorned Drinking-horn Drive Elephant-beetle Elk Enarmed Ergot Fasciculate Feeler Fraying Frush Furnish Gazel Goat Gore Granitel Granitic Grebe Greenstone Guinea-hen H Harmonical Hartshorn Head Hoof Hoof-bound Horn Hornbeak Hornbill Hornblower Hornbook Horned Hornedness Horner Hornify Hornish Hornless Hornowl Hornpipe Hornshavings Hornspoon Horny Hunting-horn Hyperstene Ibex Inkhorn Jasponyx Knag Koba Korin Lantern Lift Mew Molt Molting Monoceros Monodon Moose Mull Musk Muskmelon Nail Narwal Nasicornous Nectary Notable Note Nylgau Orthoceratite Perisperm Piazza Pin Pip Poke-weed Poking Pollard Powder-horn Push Quarter Rampion Rane Rathoffite Rattlesnake Recheat Rhinoceros Rhinoceros-bird Roebuck Run Satyr Scale Sergeantry Shoeinghorn Sienite Skipper Snail Sole Sound Span Spitter Start Stentorophonic Tardy-gaited Tasseled Tauricornous Tenderling Thumping Toot Tooter Topan Trachyte Trap Trap-tuff Tremolite Turpentine-tree Twang Ungored Unhorned Unicorn Unicornous Wasp Whiffler Whitewood Windy Wing Wont Wood-puceron Wood-stone Yak Yenite
Abada Abagun Actinolite Adnata Agate Agatized Altar Ammonite Amphibole Anhima Antelope Antennae Antler Aphis Argent-horned Armature Armed Attire Augite Babyroussa Basaltine Battle-door Bead-maker Beak Beamy Belemnite Bezantler Bicorn Bicornous Biggel Bison Blow Boops Bos Branch Broad-horned Bronzite Brow Buceros Buckshorn Bud Bugle Bunt Burr Call Camel Camelopard Carinthin Cassowary Cattle Celandine Cerastes Chert Comb Coralloidal Cornage Cornea Cornel Cornel-tree Cornelian-tree Corneous Corner Cornet Cornicle Corniculate Cornigerous Cornist Cornucopia Cornute Cornuted Cornuto Corny Crescent Croches Crotch Cusp Cuttle-fish Dishorn Dishorned Drinking-horn Drive Elephant-beetle Elk Enarmed Ergot Fasciculate Feeler Fraying Frush Furnish Gazel Goat Gore Granitel Granitic Grebe Greenstone Guinea-hen H Harmonical Hartshorn Head Hoof Hoof-bound Horn Hornbeak Hornbill Hornblower Hornbook Horned Hornedness Horner Hornify Hornish Hornless Hornowl Hornpipe Hornshavings Hornspoon Horny Hunting-horn Hyperstene Ibex Inkhorn Jasponyx Knag Koba Korin Lantern Lift Mew Molt Molting Monoceros Monodon Moose Mull Musk Muskmelon Nail Narwal Nasicornous Nectary Notable Note Nylgau Orthoceratite Perisperm Piazza Pin Pip Poke-weed Poking Pollard Powder-horn Push Quarter Rampion Rane Rathoffite Rattlesnake Recheat Rhinoceros Rhinoceros-bird Roebuck Run Satyr Scale Sergeantry Shoeinghorn Sienite Skipper Snail Sole Sound Span Spitter Start Stentorophonic Tardy-gaited Tasseled Tauricornous Tenderling Thumping Toot Tooter Topan Trachyte Trap Trap-tuff Tremolite Turpentine-tree Twang Ungored Unhorned Unicorn Unicornous Wasp Whiffler Whitewood Windy Wing Wont Wood-puceron Wood-stone Yak Yenite
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