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- English Word Horn Definition An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- English Word Horn Definition Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
- English Word Horn Definition A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
- English Word Horn Definition A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
- English Word Horn Definition The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
- English Word Horn Definition A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
- English Word Horn Definition The pointed beak of an anvil.
- English Word Horn Definition The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- English Word Horn Definition The Ionic volute.
- English Word Horn Definition The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
- English Word Horn Definition A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
- English Word Horn Definition One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
- English Word Horn Definition One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
- English Word Horn Definition The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
- English Word Horn Definition The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
- English Word Horn Definition A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
- English Word Horn Definition An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- English Word Horn Definition To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
- English Word Horn Definition To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
- English Word Horn-mad Definition Quite mad; -- raving crazy.