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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

... Valparaiso, board this warship in the night, overpower the watch, escape to sea under the fire of the forts, and finally, after marvellous adventures, lose the cruiser among the icebergs near Cape Horn. ...

— By Conduct and Courage • G. A. Henty

... horses and insisted upon our stopping to lunch, with the ready hospitality always shown by army officers. After lunch we began exchanging stories. My travelling companion, the surveyor, had that spring performed a feat of note, going through one of the canyons of the Big Horn for the first time. He went with an old mining inspector, the two of them dragging a cottonwood sledge over the ice. The walls of the canyon are so sheer and the water so rough that it can be descended only when the stream ...

— Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches • Theodore Roosevelt

... grandfather's expression, 'there was really no demonstration of a house unless it were the diminutive door.' He once landed on Ronaldsay with two friends. The inhabitants crowded and pressed so much upon the strangers that the bailiff, or resident factor of the island, blew with his ox-horn, calling out to the natives to stand off and let the gentlemen come forward to the laird; upon which one of the islanders, as spokesman, called out, "God ha'e us, man! thou needsna mak' sic a noise. It's no' every day we ha'e THREE HATTED MEN on our isle."' When the Surveyor ...

— Records of a Family of Engineers • Robert Louis Stevenson

... all be gone," sighed the Bull, plaintively; "when I was a Smooth Horn, and in the full glory ...

— The Outcasts • W. A. Fraser

... it boils, draw it from the fire long enough to add an ounce of coffee powder to a pound of water. Stir with a spoon. Return it to the fire and when it boils move it back somewhat from the heat and let it simmer for eight minutes. Clarify with sugar or deer horn powder. ...

— All About Coffee • William H. Ukers

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