horn

Plural: horns

Noun

• a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
• one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
• a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
• a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
• any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
• the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
• a device having the shape of a horn
  • "horns at the ends of a new moon"
  • "the hornof an anvil"
  • "the cleat had two horns"
• an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
• a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
• a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
• A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
• 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.
• An antler.
• The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
• A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• The Ionic volute.
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
• An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
• One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
• Any of several musical wind instruments.
• An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
• A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
• A sound signaling the expiration of time.
• A conical device used to direct waves.
• Generally, any brass wind instrument.
• A telephone.
• An erection of the penis.
• A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
• 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.
• An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
• 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.

Verb

Verb Forms: horned, horning, horns

• To furnish or provide with a horn or horns.
• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
  • "the rhino horned the explorer"
• To assault with the horns.
• To furnish with horns.
• To cuckold.
• To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.

Examples

• an umbrella with a handle made of horn
• antenna horn
• Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
• He tried to HORN in on his opponent’s triple word score, but couldn’t.
• hunting horn
• loudspeaker horn
• The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
• to navigate around the horn

Synonyms

automobile horn, car horn, cornet, French horn, hooter, motor horn, saddle horn, trump, trumpet, tusk, blower, boner, dog and bone, funnel, hard-on, keratin, klaxon, peninsula, phone, stiffy

Anagrams of horn