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.
The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form;
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.
the telephone; as, on the horn.
a body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
