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. |
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. |
Coral (n.) The hard parts or skeleton of various Anthozoa, and of a few Hydrozoa. Similar structures are also formed by some Bryozoa. |
Coral (n.) The ovaries of a cooked lobster |
Coral (n.) A piece of coral, usually fitted with small bells and other appurtenances, used by children as a plaything. |
Coral fish () Any bright-colored fish of the genera Chaetodon, Pomacentrus, Apogon, and related genera, which live among reef corals. |
Coral-rag (n.) Same as Corallian. |
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Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.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 |
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. |
Stag-horn coral () Alt. of Stag-horn fern |
Stag-horn fern () See under Stag. |
Coral Sea battle of the Coral Sea | a Japanese defeat in World War II (May ), the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers |
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 |
coral snake harlequin-snake New World coral snake | any of several venomous New World snakes brilliantly banded in red and black and either yellow or white, widely distributed in South America and Central America |
eastern coral snake Micrurus fulvius | ranges from Central America to southeastern United States |
western coral snake Micruroides euryxanthus | ranges from Central America to southwestern United States |
coral snake Old World coral snake | any of various venomous elapid snakes of Asia and Africa and Australia |
Asian coral snake | of India |
African coral snake Aspidelaps lubricus | small widely distributed arboreal snake of southern Africa banded in black and orange |
Australian coral snake Rhynchoelaps australis | small venomous but harmless snake marked with black-and-white on red |
coral | marine colonial polyp characterized by a calcareous skeleton, masses in a variety of shapes often forming reefs |
gorgonian gorgonian coral | corals having a horny or calcareous branching skeleton |
red coral | corals of especially the Mediterranean having pink or red color used for ornaments and jewelry |
stony coral madrepore madriporian coral | corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands |
brain coral | massive reef-building coral having a convoluted and furrowed surface |
staghorn coral stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
mushroom coral | flattened disk-shaped stony coral (usually solitary and unattached) |
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 |
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 |
coral | a variable color averaging a deep pink |
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 |
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, |
coral | unfertilized lobster roe, reddens in cooking, used as garnish or to color sauces |
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 |
coral reef | a reef consisting of coral consolidated into limestone |
Coral Sea | an arm of the South Pacific to the northeast of Australia |
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 |
coralwood coral-wood red sandalwood Barbados pride peacock flower fence Adenanthera pavonina | East Indian tree with racemes of yellow-white flowers, cultivated as an ornamental |
coral necklace Illecebrum verticullatum | glabrous annual with slender taproot and clusters of white flowers, western Europe especially western Mediterranean and Atlantic coastal areas |
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 |
coral root | a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor |