horn

/hɔːn//hɔɹn/

noun

  1. 1

    A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

  2. 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. 3

    An antler.

  4. 4

    The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

    an umbrella with a handle made of horn
  5. 5

    An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.

  6. 6

    Any of several musical wind instruments.

  7. 7

    An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

    hunting horn
  8. 8

    A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

  9. 9

    A sound signaling the expiration of time.

    The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
  10. 10

    A conical device used to direct waves.

    antenna horn
  11. 11

    Generally, any brass wind instrument.

  12. 12

    (from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.

    Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
  13. 13

    (definite article) An erection of the penis.

  14. 14

    A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

    to navigate around the horn
  15. 15

    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.

  16. 16

    An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

verb

  1. 1

    (of an animal) To assault with the horns.

  2. 2

    To furnish with horns.

  3. 3

    To cuckold.

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