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. |
Bell crank () A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery. |
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. |
Crank (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it |
Crank (n.) Any bend, turn, or winding, as of a passage. |
Crank (n.) A twist or turn in speech |
Crank (n.) A twist or turn of the mind |
Crank (n.) A person full of crotchets |
Crank (n.) A sick person |
Crank (n.) Sick |
Crank (n.) Liable to careen or be overset, as a ship when she is too narrow, or has not sufficient ballast, or is loaded too high, to carry full sail. |
Crank (n.) Full of spirit |
Crank (n.) To run with a winding course |
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Horn (n.) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.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 |
Lever (a.) More agreeable |
Lever (adv.) Rather. |
Lever (n.) A rigid piece which is capable of turning about one point, or axis (the fulcrum), and in which are two or more other points where forces are applied |
Lever (n.) A bar, as a capstan bar, applied to a rotatory piece to turn it. |
Lever (n.) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it. |
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. |
lever hang | a hang performed on the rings with the body stationary in a horizontal position |
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 |
aileron | an airfoil that controls lateral motion |
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 |
compound lever | a pair of levers hinged at the fulcrum |
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 |
crank starter | a hand tool consisting of a rotating shaft with parallel handle |
crank handle starting handle | crank used to start an engine |
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 |
gearshift gearstick shifter gear lever | a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears, in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever |
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 |
lever | a rigid bar pivoted about a fulcrum |
lever lever tumbler | a flat metal tumbler in a lever lock |
lever | a simple machine that gives a mechanical advantage when given a fulcrum |
lever lock | a lock whose tumblers are levers that must be raised to a given position so that the bolt can move |
c methamphetamine methamphetamine hydrochloride Methedrine meth deoxyephedrine chalk chicken feed crank glass ice shabu trash | an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride, used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant |
pedal treadle foot pedal foot lever | a lever that is operated with the foot |
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 |
spark lever | (on early automobiles) a lever mounted on the steering column and used to adjust the timing of the ignition |
steelyard lever scale beam scale | a portable balance consisting of a pivoted bar with arms of unequal length |
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 |
crank call | a hostile telephone call (from a crank) |
crank letter | a hostile (usually anonymous) letter |
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 |
crackpot crank nut nut case fruitcake screwball | a whimsically eccentric person |
grouch grump crank churl crosspatch | a bad-tempered person |
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 |