Sekirov Dictionary

horn

UK /hɔːn/US /hɔɹn/

noun24

  1. a hard thing that sticks out from the top of an animal's head and ends in a point
  2. Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
  3. An antler.
  4. An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
  5. A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
  6. Any of several musical wind instruments.
  7. (informal) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
  8. A sound signaling the expiration of time.
  9. The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
  10. An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
  11. One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
  12. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
  13. The Ionic volute.
  14. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
  15. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
  16. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
  17. A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
  18. A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
  19. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
  20. In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
  21. (slang) A telephone.
  22. A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
  23. A conical device used to direct waves.
  24. (slang, vulgar) An erection of the penis.

verb4

  1. Of an animal, to assault with the horns.
  2. (India, Singapore) To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
  3. To furnish with horns.
  4. (slang, no longer used) To cuckold.
forms

horned · horning · horns

Phrases with horn

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