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(hôrn) noun
1. A hard bonelike growth projecting from the head of various hoofed mammals, as oxen, sheep, cattle, etc.; also, the antler of a deer, shed annually.
2. Any hardened and thickened outgrowth of epidermal tissue, as a feeler, antenna, tentacle, etc.
3. A feather tuft, as on the head of some birds.
4. The appendage like an animal's horn attributed to demons, deities, etc.
5. An imaginary projection from the forehead of a cuckold.
6. The substance of which animal horn consists, as keratin, calcium phosphate, etc.
7. A vessel or implement formed from or shaped like a horn: a powder horn.
8. A wind instrument, made formerly of animal horn, now of brass, in the shape of a long tube constricted at one end and widening out to a large bell at the other.
9. Slang A trumpet.
10. Any pointed or tapering projection.
11. One of the extremities of a crescent moon.
12. One of the branches forming the delta of a stream.
13. A cape or peninsula.
14. The pommel of a saddle.
15. The point of an anvil.
16. Aeron. The lever which operates the wire connecting with the rudder, aileron, or elevator of an aircraft.
17. A hollow conical device with a bell–shaped aperture, for collecting sound waves, as in a sound locator.
18. A device for sounding warning signals: an automobile horn.
—on the horns of a dilemma
Forced to choose between two painful alternatives.
—to haul (or pull or draw) in one's horns
To check one's anger, zeal, pretensions, etc.
adjective Of horn or horns.
v.t.

1. To provide with horns.
2. To shape like a horn.
3. To attack with the horns; gore.
4. Obs. To cuckold.
—to horn in
To enter without invitation.
[OE. Akin to CORN2.]
—horn′less
adjective
—horn′·like
adjective

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