Definition of horn

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

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Markhoor :: Markhoor (n.) A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere..
Paragnathus :: Paragnathus (n.) One of the small, horny, toothlike jaws of certain annelids..
Hornobbing :: Hornobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hobno.
Gemul :: Gemul (n.) A small South American deer (Furcifer Chilensis), with simple forked horns..
Hornless :: Hornless (a.) Having no horn.
Bugle :: Bugle (n.) A horn used by hunters.
Tauricornous :: Tauricornous (a.) Having horns like those of a bull.
Tremex :: Tremex (n.) A genus of large hymenopterous insects allied to the sawflies. The female lays her eggs in holes which she bores in the trunks of trees with her large and long ovipositor, and the larva bores in the wood. See Illust. of Horntail..
Hartshorn :: Hartshorn (n.) Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
Cornicle :: Cornicle (n.) A little horn.
Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe..
Christ''s-thorn :: Christ's-thorn (n.) One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns..
Hedge :: Hedge (n.) A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a fence between any two portions of land; and also any sort of shrubbery, as evergreens, planted in a line or as a fence; particularly, such a thicket planted round a field to fence it, or in rows to separate the parts of a garden..
Horn :: Horn (n.) 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..
Zilla :: Zilla (n.) A low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (Zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of Egypt. Its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the Arabs..
Rhamphotheca :: Rhamphotheca (n.) The horny covering of the bill of birds.
Quick :: Quick (n.) That which is quick, or alive; a living animal or plant; especially, the hawthorn, or other plants used in making a living hedge..
Sauger :: Sauger (n.) An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion Canadense); -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel..
Scutate :: Scutate (a.) Protected or covered by bony or horny plates, or large scales..
Medicornu :: Medicornu (n.) The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
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