Basset horn (a.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
Bass horn () A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. |
-blast () A suffix or terminal formative, used principally in biological terms, and signifying growth, formation |
Blast (n.) A violent gust of wind. |
Blast (n.) A forcible stream of air from an orifice, as from a bellows, the mouth, etc. Hence: The continuous blowing to which one charge of ore or metal is subjected in a furnace |
Blast (n.) The exhaust steam from and engine, driving a column of air out of a boiler chimney, and thus creating an intense draught through the fire |
Blast (n.) The sound made by blowing a wind instrument |
Blast (n.) A sudden, pernicious effect, as if by a noxious wind, especially on animals and plants |
Blast (n.) The act of rending, or attempting to rend, heavy masses of rock, earth, etc., by the explosion of gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast (n.) A flatulent disease of sheep. |
Blast (v. t.) To injure, as by a noxious wind |
Blast (v. t.) Hence, to affect with some sudden violence, plague, calamity, or blighting influence, which destroys or causes to fail |
Blast (v. t.) To confound by a loud blast or din. |
Blast (v. t.) To rend open by any explosive agent, as gunpowder, dynamite, etc. |
Blast (v. i.) To be blighted or withered |
Blast (v. i.) To blow |
Blast pipe () The exhaust pipe of a steam engine, or any pipe delivering steam or air, when so constructed as to cause a blast. |
Buck's-horn (n.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus) |
Bugle horn () A bugle. |
Bugle horn () A drinking vessel made of horn. |
Gems-horn (n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes. |
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. |
Horn (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. |
Horn (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form |
Horn (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). |
Horn (n.) Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn |
Horn (n.) A wind instrument of music |
Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. |
Horn (n.) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. |
Horn (n.) A vessel made of a horn |
Horn (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil. |
Horn (n.) The high pommel of a saddle |
Horn (n.) The Ionic volute. |
Horn (n.) The outer end of a crosstree |
Horn (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. |
Horn (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. |
Horn (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent |
Horn (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form. |
Horn (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime |
Horn (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride. |
Horn (n.) An emblem of a cuckold |
Horn (v. t.) To furnish with horns |
Horn (v. t.) To cause to wear horns |
Horn-mad (a.) Quite mad |
Hot blast () See under Blast. |
Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. |
Shoeing-horn (n.) A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe. |
Shoeing-horn (n.) Anything by which a transaction is facilitated |
Shoeing-horn (n.) Anything which draws on or allures |
Slug-horn (a.) An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan. |
blast | a very long fly ball |
solo homer solo blast | a home run with no runners on base |
horn | one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates |
horn | any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn |
staghorn coral stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
horn fly Haematobia irritans | small black European fly introduced into North America, sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn |
forest goat spindle horn Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
air horn | air intake of a carburetor |
air horn | a pneumatic horn |
automobile horn car horn motor horn horn hooter | a device on an automobile for making a warning noise |
baritone baritone horn | the second lowest brass wind instrument |
basset horn | a tenor clarinet, pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet |
bass horn sousaphone tuba | the lowest brass wind instrument |
blast furnace | a furnace for smelting of iron from iron oxide ores, combustion is intensified by a blast of air |
cornet horn trumpet trump | a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone, has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves |
English horn cor anglais | a doubleeed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch |
French horn horn | a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves |
horn | an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound |
horn saddle horn | a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) |
horn | a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it |
horn | a device having the shape of a horn, horns at the ends of a new moon, the hornof an anvil, the cleat had two horns |
horn button | a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile |
post horn | wind instrument used by postilions of the th and th centuries |
powder horn powder flask | container for carrying gunpowder, made of the hollow horn of an animal |
dorsal root dorsal horn | one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers |
ventral root ventral horn anterior root anterior horn | one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers |
fire attack flak flack blast | intense adverse criticism, Clinton directed his fire at the Republican Party, the government has come under attack, don't give me any flak |
horn of plenty cornucopia | a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity |
horn | a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning, |
good time blast | a highly pleasurable or exciting experience, we had a good time at the party, celebrating after the game was a blast |
shock wave blast wave | a region of high pressure travelling through a gas at a high velocity, the explosion created a shock wave |
bang clap eruption blast bam | a sudden very loud noise |
blast | an explosion (as of dynamite) |
bomb blast | the explosion of a bomb |
backblast back-blast | backfire from a recoilless weapon |
Cape Horn | a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego) |
Somali peninsula Horn of Africa | a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia |
Little Bighorn Little Bighorn River Little Horn | a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana, site of Custer's Last Stand |
gust blast blow | a strong current of air, the tree was bent almost double by the gust |
horn poppy horned poppy yellow horned poppy sea poppy Glaucium flavum | yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America |
huntsman's horn huntsman's horns yellow trumpet yellow pitcher plant trumpets Sarracenia flava | pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids |
common unicorn plant devil's claw common devil's claw elephant-tusk proboscis flower ram's horn Proboscidea louisianica | annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak |
blast trauma | injury caused the explosion of a bomb (especially in enclosed spaces) |
horn | the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails |
blast | shrivel or wither or mature imperfectly |
blast knock down | shatter as if by explosion |
savage blast pillory crucify | criticize harshly or violently, The press savaged the new President, The critics crucified the author for plagiarizing a famous passage |
blast shoot | fire a shot, the gunman blasted away |
blast shell | use explosives on, The enemy has been shelling us all day |
smash nail boom blast | hit hard, He smashed a -run homer |