Antler
(n.) The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag. |
Apollinaris water
() An effervescing alkaline mineral water used as a table beverage. It is obtained from a spring in Apollinarisburg, near Bonn. |
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. |
Bay-antler
(n.) The second tine of a stag's horn. See under Antler. |
Bes-antler
(n.) Same as Bez-antler. |
Bez-antler
(n.) The second branch of a stag's horn. |
Botanical
(a.) Of or pertaining to botany |
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. |
Female fern
() a common species of fern with large decompound fronds (Asplenium Filixfaemina), growing in many countries |
Fern
(adv.) Long ago. |
Fern
(a.) Ancient |
Fern
(n.) An order of cryptogamous plants, the Filices, which have their fructification on the back of the fronds or leaves. They are usually found in humid soil, sometimes grow epiphytically on trees, and in tropical climates often attain a gigantic size. |
Floating
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float |
Floating
(a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid |
Floating
(a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment |
Floating
(a.) Not funded |
Floating
(n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. |
Floating
(n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering. |
Fresh-water
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or living in, water not salt |
Fresh-water
(a.) Accustomed to sail on fresh water only |
Fresh-water
(a.) Unskilled |
Gems-horn
(n.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes. |
Genus
(n.) A class of objects divided into several subordinate species |
Genus
(n.) An assemblage of species, having so many fundamental points of structure in common, that in the judgment of competent scientists, they may receive a common substantive name. A genus is not necessarily the lowest definable group of species, for it may often be divided into several subgenera. In proportion as its definition is exact, it is natural genus |
Giant
(n.) A man of extraordinari bulk and stature. |
Giant
(n.) A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. |
Giant
(n.) Any animal, plant, or thing, of extraordinary size or power. |
Giant
(a.) Like a giant |
Hare's-foot fern
() A species of fern (Davallia Canariensis) with a soft, gray, hairy rootstock |
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 |