Definitions for the word "horn" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
The pointed beak of an anvil.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
The Ionic volute.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
13. n.
The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
14. n.
A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
15. n.
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
16. n.
One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
17. n.
The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
18. 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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
19. n.
A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
20. n.
An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
21. v. t.
To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
22. v. t.
To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
23. n.
1 a hard outgrowth, often curved and pointed, on the head of esp. Hoofed animals. B each of two branched appendages on the head of (esp. Male) deer. C hornlike projection on animals, e.g. A snail''s tentacle. 2 substance of which horns are made. 3 mus. A = *french horn. B wind instrument played by lip vibration, orig. Made of horn, now usu. Of brass. 4 instrument sounding a warning. 5 receptacle or instrument made of horn. 6 horn-shaped projection. 7 extremity of the moon or other crescent. 8 arm of a river etc. horn in slang intrude, interfere. horned adj. Hornist n. (in sense 3 of n.). [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
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