horn > define

noun

• A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
• One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
• A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;.
• A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather.
  • synonyms: saddle horn
• 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, trumpet, trump
• Any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
• The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.
• A device having the shape of a horn.
  • usage: "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns"
• An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound.
• A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves.
  • synonyms: French horn
• A device on an automobile for making a warning noise.
  • synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, hooter

verb

• Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk.
  • usage: "the rhino horned the explorer"
  • synonyms: tusk

• (n.) Something made of a horn or in resemblance of a horn.
• (n.) The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
• (v.t.) To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
• (n.) The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
• (n.) Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; especially: (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.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, especially 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.
• (v.t.) To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
• (n.) The cornucopia or horn of plenty.
• (n.) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
• (n.) The pointed beak of an anvil.
• (n.) One of the curved ends of a crescent; especially, an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
• (n.) The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
• (n.) An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
• (n.) One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
• (n.) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
• (n.) A vessel made of a horn; especially, one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
• (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.
• (n.) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
• (n.) A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation or pride.
• (n.) A drinking cup or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
• (n.) The Ionic volute.