Basset horn |
An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves. |
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Bass horn |
A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. |
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Buck's-horn |
A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia. |
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Bugle horn |
A bugle. |
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Bugle horn |
A drinking vessel made of horn. |
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Morsing horn |
A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. |
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Shoeing-horn |
A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe. |
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Shoeing-horn |
Anything by which a transaction is facilitated; a medium; -- by way of contempt. |
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Shoeing-horn |
Anything which draws on or allures; an inducement. |
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Slug-horn |
An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan. |
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Stag-horn coral |
Alt. of Stag-horn fern |
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Stag-horn fern |
See under Stag. |
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Gems |
The chamois. |
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Horn |
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. 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. |
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Horn |
The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed. |
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Horn |
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (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. |
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Horn |
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). |
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Horn |
Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn |
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Horn |
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. |
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Horn |
A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle. |
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