scur2 (sker)

or stunted horn. A heifer with only scurs , as the modified horns sometimes found in polled cattle and in cro -bred offspring of polled and horned breeds are called in Scotland. They are little bits of flat horn, loose at the roots, so that you can twist them about, and quite hidden in a ma of hair, continued from a thick, long tuft, which grows upon a pointed crown ridge, and falls over the forehead and sides of the head; and I have seen similar scurs and top-knots on several female short-horns. Quoted in Amer . Nat . , XXI. 1083.