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. |
Cheek (n.) The side of the face below the eye. |
Cheek (n.) The cheek bone. |
Cheek (n.) Those pieces of a machine, or of any timber, or stone work, which form corresponding sides, or which are similar and in pair |
Cheek (n.) The branches of a bridle bit. |
Cheek (n.) A section of a flask, so made that it can be moved laterally, to permit the removal of the pattern from the mold |
Cheek (n.) Cool confidence |
Cheek (v. t.) To be impudent or saucy to. |
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Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.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. |
Railway (n.) A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure. |
Railway (n.) The road, track, etc., with all the lands, buildings, rolling stock, franchises, etc., pertaining to them and constituting one property |
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. |
Underground Railroad Underground Railway | secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War |
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 |
cable railway funicular funicular railway | a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars |
car railcar railway car railroad car | a wheeled vehicle adapted to the rails of railroad, three cars had jumped the rails |
cog railway rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
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 |
elevated railway elevated railroad elevated el overhead railway | a railway that is powered by electricity and that runs on a track that is raised above the street level |
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 |
line railway line rail line | the road consisting of railroad track and roadbed |
locomotive engine locomotive engine railway locomotive | a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks |
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 |
railroad track railroad railway | a line of track providing a runway for wheels, he walked along the railroad track |
railway railroad railroad line railway line railway system | line that is the commercial organization responsible for operating a system of transportation for trains that pull passengers or freight |
railway junction | a junction where two or more railway lines meet or cross |
railway station railroad station railroad terminal train station train depot | terminal where trains load or unload passengers or goods |
scenic railway | small railway in an amusement park |
yard railway yard railyard | an area having a network of railway tracks and sidings for storage and maintenance of cars and engines |
boldness nerve brass face cheek | impudent aggressiveness, I couldn't believe her boldness, he had the effrontery to question my honesty |
cheek muscle buccinator muscle musculus buccinator | a muscle that flattens the cheek and retracts the angle of the mouth |
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 |
cheek pouch | a membranous pouch inside the mouth of many rodents (as a gopher) |
buttock cheek | either of the two large fleshy masses of muscular tissue that form the human rump |
cheek | either side of the face below the eyes |
impudence cheek impertinence | an impudent statement |
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 |
trainman railroader railroad man railwayman railway man | an employee of a railroad |
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 |