Horn

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horn

[hawrn]

–noun

1.	one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.

2.	a similar growth, sometimes of hair, as the median horn or horns on the snout of the rhinoceros, or the tusk of the narwhal.

antler.

4.	a process projecting from the head of an animal and suggestive of such a growth, as a feeler, tentacle, or crest.

5.	the bony substance of which such animal growths are composed.

6.	any similar substance, as that forming tortoise shell, hoofs, nails, or corns.

7.	an article made of the material of an animal horn or like substance, as a thimble, spoon, or shoehorn.

8.	any projection or extremity resembling the horn of an animal.

9.	something resembling or suggesting an animal horn: a drinking horn.

10.	a part resembling an animal horn attributed to deities, demons, etc.: the devil's horn.

11.	Usually, horns. the imaginary projections on a cuckold's brow.

12.

Music.

a.	a wind instrument, originally formed from the hollow horn of an animal but now usually made of brass or other metal or plastic.

b.	French horn.

13.	something used as or resembling such a wind instrument.

14.	Slang. a trumpet.

15.	an instrument for sounding a warning signal: an automobile horn.

16.	Aeronautics. any of certain short, armlike levers on the control surfaces of an airplane.

17.

Radio.

a.	a tube of varying cross section used in some loudspeakers to couple the diaphragm to the sound-transmitting space.

b.	Slang. a loudspeaker.

18.	Slang. a telephone or radiotelephone: I've been on the horn all morning.

19.	the high protuberant part at the front and top of certain saddles; a pommel, esp. a high one.

20.	Carpentry. (in a door or window frame) that part of a jamb extending above the head.

21.	one of the curved extremities of a crescent, esp. of the crescent moon.

22.	a crescent-shaped tract of land.

23.	a pyramidal mountain peak, esp. one having concave faces carved by glaciation.

24.	a symbol of power or strength, as in the Bible: a horn of salvation.

25.	each of the alternatives of a dilemma.

26.	the narrow, more pointed part of an anvil.

27.

ear tuft.

28.	Metalworking. a projection at the side of the end of a rolled sheet or strip, caused by unevenness of the roll due to wear.

29.	Horology. (in a lever escapement) either of the two prongs at the end of the lever fork guarding against overbanking when the guard pin is in the crescent.

–verb (used with object)

30.	to cuckold.

31.	to butt or gore with the horns.

32.	Shipbuilding. to set up (a frame or bulkhead of a vessel being built) at a proper angle to the keel with due regard to the inclination of the keel on the ways; plumb.

–adjective

33.	made of horn.

—Idioms

34.	blow (or toot) one's own horn, Informal. to publicize or boast about one's abilities or achievements: He's a bright fellow, but likes to blow his own horn too much.

35.	draw or pull in one's horns, to restrain oneself or become less belligerent; retreat: Since he lost so much gambling, he's drawn in his horns a bit.

36.	horn in, Informal. to thrust oneself forward obtrusively; intrude or interrupt: Every time we try to have a private conversation, the boss horns in.

37.	lock horns, to conflict, quarrel, or disagree: The administration and the staff locked horns over the proposed measures.

38.	on the horns of a dilemma, confronted with two equally disagreeable choices.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME horn(e) (n.), OE horn; c. D horen, ON, Dan, Sw horn, G Horn, Goth haurn, L cornu cornu, Ir, Welsh corn; akin to Gk kéras horn (see cerat- )

Related forms:

hornish, adjective

hornless, adjective

horn⋅less⋅ness, noun

hornlike, adjective

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Horn

[hawrn]

–noun

Cape. Cape Horn.

ear tuft

–noun

a tuft of long feathers above the eyes of some owls and other birds that becomes erect when the bird is excited or afraid but is not used in hearing.

Also called ear, horn.

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n.

One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
1. The hard smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of the horns of cattle or related animals.
2. A natural or synthetic substance resembling this material.
3. A horn of plenty; a cornucopia.
4. Either of the ends of a new moon.
5. The point of an anvil.
6. The pommel of a saddle.
7. An ear trumpet.
8. A device for projecting sound waves, as in a loudspeaker.
9. A hollow, metallic electromagnetic transmission antenna with a circular or rectangular cross section.
10. A wind instrument made of an animal horn.
11. A brass wind instrument, such as a trombone or tuba.
12. A French horn.
13. A wind instrument, such as a trumpet or saxophone, used in a jazz band.
14. A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound: an automobile horn.
15. Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.
A container, such as a powder horn, made from a horn.
Something having the shape of a horn, especially:
1. A horn of plenty; a cornucopia.
2. Either of the ends of a new moon.
3. The point of an anvil.
4. The pommel of a saddle.
5. An ear trumpet.
6. A device for projecting sound waves, as in a loudspeaker.
7. A hollow, metallic electromagnetic transmission antenna with a circular or rectangular cross section.
8. A wind instrument made of an animal horn.
9. A brass wind instrument, such as a trombone or tuba.
10. A French horn.
11. A wind instrument, such as a trumpet or saxophone, used in a jazz band.
12. A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound: an automobile horn.
13. Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.
Music
1. A wind instrument made of an animal horn.
2. A brass wind instrument, such as a trombone or tuba.
3. A French horn.
4. A wind instrument, such as a trumpet or saxophone, used in a jazz band.
5. A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound: an automobile horn.
6. Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.
1. A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound: an automobile horn.
2. Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.
Slang A telephone.

intr.v. horned, horn·ing, horns
To join without being invited; intrude. Used with in.

[Middle English, from Old English; see ker-¹ in Indo-European roots.]
horn adj., horn'ist n.

Horn (hôrn)

A headland of extreme southern Chile in the Tierra del Fuego archipelago. The southernmost point of South America, it was first rounded in 1616 by the Dutch navigator Willem Schouten (died 1625), who named it after his birthplace, Hoorn. It is notorious for its storms and heavy seas.

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Horn

Horn\, n. [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. ha['u]rn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ?, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. [,c]iras head. Cf. Carat, Corn on the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cornet, Cornucopia, Hart.]

1. 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.

2. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

3. (Zo["o]l.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.

4. (Bot.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

5. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn; as: (a) 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. "Wind his horn under the castle wall." --Spenser. See French horn, under French. (b) A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. "Horns of mead and ale." --Mason. (c) The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. See Cornucopia. "Fruits and flowers from Amalth[ae]a's horn." --Milton. (d) A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids. "Samuel took the hornof oil and anointed him [David]." --1 Sam. xvi. 13. (e) The pointed beak of an anvil. (f) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. (g) (Arch.) The Ionic volute. (h) (Naut.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. (i) (Carp.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. (j) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. "Joab . . . caught hold on the horns of the altar." --1 Kings ii. 28.

6. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. --Thomson.

7. (Mil.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Sharpening in mooned horns Their phalanx. --Milton.

8. 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.

9. (Script.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

The Lord is . . . the horn of my salvation. --Ps. xviii. 2.

10. An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural. "Thicker than a cuckold's horn." --Shak.

Horn block, the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; -- also called horn plate.

Horn of a dilemma. See under Dilemma.

Horn distemper, a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn.

Horn drum, a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water.

Horn lead (Chem.), chloride of lead.

Horn maker, a maker of cuckolds. [Obs.] --Shak.

Horn mercury. (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below).

Horn poppy (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; -- called also horned poppy. --Gray.

Horn pox (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox.

Horn quicksilver (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury.

Horn shell (Zo["o]l.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera.

Horn silver (Min.), cerargyrite.

Horn slate, a gray, siliceous stone.

To haul in one's horns, to withdraw some arrogant pretension. [Colloq.]

To raise, or lift, the horn (Script.), to exalt one's self; to act arrogantly. "'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?" --Milton.

To take a horn, to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. [Low]

Horn

Horn\, v. t. 1. To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

2. To cause to wear horns; to cuckold. [Obs.] --Shak.

Language Translation for : Horn

Spanish: cuerno, asta,

German: das Horn,

Japanese: 角

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horn

O.E. horn "horn of an animal," also "wind instrument" (originally made from animal horns), from P.Gmc. *khurnaz (cf. Ger. Horn, Du. horen, Goth. haurn), from PIE *ker- "uppermost part of the body, head, horn, top, summit" (cf. Gk. karnon, L. cornu, Skt. srngam "horn"). Reference to car horns is first recorded 1901. A hornpipe was originally a hornepype (c.1400), a musical instrument with bell and mouthpiece made of horn, later (c.1485) "dance associated with sailors" (originally performed to music from such an instrument). To horn in "intrude" is attested by 1880, originally cowboy slang, on the notion of buffalo behavior.

Main Entry: horn
Pronunciation: 'ho(&)rn
Function: noun
1 a : one of the usually paired bony processes that arise from the head of many ungulatesand that are found in some extinct mammals and reptiles; especially : one of the permanent paired hollow sheaths of keratin usually present in both sexes of cattle and their relativesthat function chiefly for defense and arise from a bony core anchored to the skull b : the tough fibrous material consisting chiefly of keratin that covers or forms the horns of cattleand related animals, hooves, or other horny parts (as claws or nails)
2 : CORNU —horned /'ho(&)rnd/ adjective

horn (hôrn)
n.

One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.
A hard protuberance that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
The hard, smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of animal horns.
Any of the major subdivisions of the lateral ventricle in the cerebral hemisphere of the brain: the frontal horn, occipital horn, and temporal horn. Also called cornu.

horn (hôrn) Pronunciation Key

Either of the bony growths projecting from the upper part of the head of certain hoofed mammals, such as cattle, sheep, and goats. The horns of these animals are never shed, and they consist of bone covered by keratin.
A hard growth that looks like a horn, such as an antler or a growth on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros. Unlike true horns, antlers are shed yearly and have a velvety covering, and the horns of a rhinoceros are made not of bone but of hairy skin fused with keratin.
The hard durable substance that forms the outer covering of true horns. It consists of keratin.

Horn

Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4,5). Flasks or vessels were made of horn (1 Sam. 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39). But the word is used also metaphorically to denote the projecting corners of the altar of burnt offerings (Ex. 27:2) and of incense (30:2). The horns of the altar of burnt offerings were to be smeared with the blood of the slain bullock (29:12; Lev. 4:7-18). The criminal, when his crime was accidental, found an asylum by laying hold of the horns of the altar (1 Kings 1:50; 2:28). The word also denotes the peak or summit of a hill (Isa. 5:1, where the word "hill" is the rendering of the same Hebrew word). This word is used metaphorically also for strength (Deut. 33:17) and honour (Job 16:15; Lam. 2:3). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them (Dan. 8:5, 9; 1 Sam. 2:1; 16:1, 13; 1 Kings 1:39; 22:11; Josh. 6:4, 5; Ps. 75:5, 10; 132:17; Luke 1:69, etc.). The expression "horn of salvation," applied to Christ, means a salvation of strength, or a strong Saviour (Luke 1:69). To have the horn "exalted" denotes prosperity and triumph (Ps. 89:17, 24). To "lift up" the horn is to act proudly (Zech. 1:21). Horns are also the symbol of royal dignity and power (Jer. 48:25; Zech. 1:18; Dan. 8:24).

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In addition to the idioms beginning with horn, also see blow one's own horn; lock horns; pull in one's horns; take the bull by the horns.

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