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. |
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(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.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. |
| 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 |
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 |
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, |
| 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 |
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 |
| horn | the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails |
horn
tusk | stab or pierce with a horn or tusk, the rhino horned the explorer |
intrude
horn in
pry
nose
poke | search or inquire in a meddlesome way, This guy is always nosing around the office |
| horn-rimmed | having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either, horn-rimmed glasses |
| horn-shaped | shaped in the form of a horn |