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(n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.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. |
Sheep
(n. sing. & pl.) Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia. |
Sheep
(n. sing. & pl.) A weak, bashful, silly fellow. |
Sheep
(n. sing. & pl.) Fig.: The people of God, as being under the government and protection of Christ, the great Shepherd. |
Sheep-faced
(a.) Over-bashful |
Sheep-headed
(a.) Silly |
Sheep's-eye
(n.) A modest, diffident look |
Sheep's-foot
(n.) A printer's tool consisting of a metal bar formed into a hammer head at one end and a claw at the other, -- used as a lever and hammer. |
Sheep-shearer
(n.) One who shears, or cuts off the wool from, sheep. |
Sheep-shearing
(n.) Act of shearing sheep. |
Sheep-shearing
(n.) A feast at the time of sheep-shearing. |
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 |
| sheep frog | mostly of Central America |
| sheep-tick sheep tick Ixodes ricinus | parasitic on sheep and cattle as well as humans, can transmit looping ill in sheep (acute viral disease of the nervous system), a vector for Lyme disease spirochete |
staghorn coral
stag's-horn coral | large branching coral resembling antlers |
shepherd dog
sheepdog
sheep dog | any of various usually long-haired breeds of dog reared to herd and guard sheep |
Shetland sheepdog
Shetland sheep dog
Shetland | a small sheepdog resembling a collie that was developed in the Shetland Islands |
sheep botfly
sheep gadfly
Oestrus ovis | larvae are parasitic on sheep |
sheep ked
sheep-tick sheep tick Melophagus Ovinus | wingless fly that is an external parasite on sheep and cattle |
horn fly
Haematobia irritans | small black European fly introduced into North America, sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn |
musk ox
musk sheep
Ovibos moschatus | large shaggyoated bovid mammal of Canada and Greenland, intermediate in size and anatomy between an ox and a sheep |
| sheep | woolly usually horned ruminant mammal related to the goat |
| black sheep | sheep with a black coat |
domestic sheep
Ovis aries | any of various breeds raised for wool or edible meat or skin |
merino
merino sheep | white sheep originating in Spain and producing a heavy fleece of exceptional quality |
| wild sheep | undomesticated sheep |
Marco Polo sheep
Marco Polo's sheep
Ovis poli | Asiatic wild sheep with exceptionally large horns, sometimes considered a variety of the argali (or Ovis ammon) |
Dall sheep
Dall's sheep
white sheep
Ovis montana dalli | large white wild sheep of northwestern Canada and Alaska |
| mountain sheep | any wild sheep inhabiting mountainous regions |
bighorn
bighorn sheep
cimarron
Rocky Mountain bighorn
Rocky Mountain sheep
Ovis canadensis | wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America having massive curled horns |
aoudad
arui
audad
Barbary sheep
maned sheep
Ammotragus lervia | wild sheep of northern Africa |
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 |
fold sheepfold
sheep pen
sheepcote | a pen for sheep |
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 |
| sheep bell | a bell hung round the neck of a sheep so that the sheep can be easily located |
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 |
scapegrace
black sheep | a reckless and unprincipled reprobate |
| sheep | a docile and vulnerable person who would rather follow than make an independent decision, his students followed him like sheep |
| sheep | a timid defenseless simpleton who is readily preyed upon |