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& a. [A. S.; cogn. with Icel., Dan., Sw., & Ger. horn; Goth. haurn; Ir., Gael., & Wel. corn; Lat. cornu.] A. As substantive : I. Ordinary Language : 1. In the same sense as II. "No beast that hath horns hath upper teeth."- Bacon : Nat. Hist ., § 753. 2. The material or substance of which horns are composed. "There is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn."-Shakesp.: Much Ado about Nothing , v. 4. 3. Anything made of or resembling a horn in shape. (1) A powder-flask: originally made of a horn. (2) A drinking-cup: so called from having been originally made of horn. Now the name is applied to a similar ve el, even if made of other material; a beaker. (3) The cornucopia or horn of plenty. (CORNUCOPIA.] (4) In the same sense as II. 8. "Some of them had actually been proscribed by sound of horn for the crime of withstanding his lawful commands."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng . , ch. xiii. (5) Used as a symbol of plenty [(3)]. "With his horn full of good news." Shakesp.: Merchant of Venice, v. 1. 4. A draught from a horn; a hornful. 5. A drink of liquor; as, to take a horn of whisky. ( U.S. Slang .) 6. Anything resembling a horn in relative position or use; anything projecting like a horn. (1) The feeler of an insect, snail, . "Tender horns of cockled snails." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 3. (2) An extremity of the moon when on the wane or waxing. *(3) An extremity of a wing of an army or body of soldiers, drawn up in crescent form. (4) A long horn-like projection of some precious metal, worn on the forehead by the natives of some Asiatic countries. *(5) The imaginary antler or projection on the forehead of a cuckold. (6) A branch of a subdivided stream. *7. A deer. "My lady goes to kill horns ." II. Technically : Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 1. IMG:content-1279.png:[blocks in formation] (1) ( Gen. ): Any stiff awl-shaped proce . (2) Pl .): A number of elongate antherozoids, found in the antheridia of Vaucheria. IMG:content-1280.png:[blocks in formation] (3) A curved projection on the forepart of a plane. 6. Mining: (1) A spoon or scoop of horn, in which washings are tested in prospecting. (2) ( Pl .): The guides for the ropes on the drums. 7. Milling : One of the points of a driver, on the summit of a millstone spindle, which project into the coffins of the runner to convey the motion of the spindle to it. 8. Music : The proper orchestral horn is the French horn, a metal wind instrument, formed of a continuous tube twisted into a curved shape for the convenience of holding. It is furnished with a mouthpiece and a bell. The mouthpiece is mov able, so as to allow additional pieces of tubing called crooks to be added to its length, in order to alter its pitch. The bell is sufficiently wide to admit the hand of the player. The horn of military and other bra bands is usually some form of the Saxehorn (q. v.). 9. Nautical: (1) The arm of a cleat or kevel. (2) One member of the jaw of a boom. 10. Physiol.: [11. 1.] 11. Saddlery: (1) The high pommel of a Spanish or half-Spanish saddle, sometimes made of horn. (2) The projections on the forward part of a woman's saddle, between which the right leg is placed. The inside one is the small horn, the outer the large horn. 12. Script .: A horn is symbolical(1) Of strength, power, or might (physical or political) (Ps. lxxv. 10; Jer. xlviii. 25; Lam. ii. 3, 17). Hence kings, rulers, kingdoms, or empires are often viewed prophetically as horns (Dan. vii. 20, 21, 24, viii. 3, 6, 7, 20; Rev. xiii. 1, 11). (2) Of glory or reputation arising from that strength or power (1 Sam. ii. 1, 10; Job xvi. 15; Ps. Ixxxix. 17, 24, cxlviii. 14). (3) Of insolence generated by it (Ps. lxxv. 4, 5). 13. Surg .: Sometimes, though rarely, horns, tend ing to become spiral, grow from the scalp, or even from the face or trunk of man. (1) Horn with horn, horn under horn: Eng . Law : The promiscuous feeding of all kinds of horned cattle, not excluding bulls on the same common. ( Spelman . ) (2) To put to the horn: Scots Law: To outlaw a person; to denounce as a rebel. B. As adj.: Made of the material described in A. *horn-band, s. A band of trumpeters. *horn-beast, s. An animal with horns; a deer. ( Shakesp .: As You Like It , iii. 3.) IMG:content-1281.png:[blocks in formation] hornblende