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Horn   /hɔrn/   Listen
Horn

noun
1.
A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
2.
One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
3.
A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning.
4.
A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather).  Synonym: saddle horn.
5.
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.  Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet.
6.
Any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
7.
The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.
8.
A device having the shape of a horn.  "The hornof an anvil" , "The cleat had two horns"
9.
An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound.
10.
A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves.  Synonym: French horn.
11.
A device on an automobile for making a warning noise.  Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn.
verb
1.
Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk.  Synonym: tusk.



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"Horn" Quotes from Famous Books



... $500,000, of which one-third was for land damages, was but little more than the estimate. Commencing at Charlestown mill-pond, it passed through Medford, crossing the Mystic by a wooden aqueduct of 100 ft., to Horn pond in Woburn. Traversing Woburn and Wilmington it crossed the Shawshine by an aqueduct of 137 ft., and struck the Concord, from which it receives its water, at Billerica Mills. Entering the Concord by a stone guard-lock, ...
— The Bay State Monthly, Volume II. No. 2, November, 1884 • Various

... in his hands the horn that was called the Gialarhorn. He would sound it to let the Dwellers in Asgard know that one was crossing the Rainbow Bridge. And Heimdall told little Hnossa how he had trained himself to hear the grasses grow, and how he could see all around him for a hundred miles. ...
— The Children of Odin - The Book of Northern Myths • Padraic Colum

... at that meal, the postboy's twanging horn was heard, as he trotted into the village with his letter-bag. My lord's bag was brought in presently from the village, and his letters, which he put aside, and his newspaper which he read. He smiled as he came to a paragraph, looked at his Virginian cousin, and handed the ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray

... made of different colors in different proportions, according to the time he allotted to each particular affair; as he carried these about with him wherever he went, to make them burn evenly he invented horn lanterns. One cannot help being amazed that a prince, who lived in such turbulent times, who commanded personally in fifty-four pitched battles, who had so disordered a province to regulate, who was not only a legislator, but a judge, and who was continually superintending his armies, his ...
— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VII. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... was passing into pralaya, an ark, a vessel appeared; into this vessel stepped the great Rishi with others, and the seeds of life were carried by Them, and as They go forth upon the waters a mighty fish appears and to the horn of that fish the vessel is fastened by a rope, and it conveys the whole safely to the solid ground where the Manu rebegins His work. A story! yes, but a story that tells a truth; for looking at it as it takes ...
— Avataras • Annie Besant


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