What does HORN mean?
Definitions for HORN
hɔrnhorn
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Princeton's WordNet
hornnoun
a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
hornnoun
one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
hornnoun
a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
horn, saddle hornnoun
a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
cornet, horn, trumpet, trumpnoun
a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
hornnoun
any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
hornnoun
the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
hornnoun
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"
hornnoun
an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
French horn, hornnoun
a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, horn, hooterverb
a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
horn, tuskverb
stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
"the rhino horned the explorer"
GCIDE
Hornnoun
a body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.
Wiktionary
hornnoun
A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals.
hornnoun
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
hornnoun
Any of several musical wind instruments.
hornnoun
An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
hunting horn
hornnoun
A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
hornnoun
A conical device used to direct waves.
hornnoun
Generally, any brass wind instrument.
hornnoun
A telephone.
hornnoun
An erection of the penis.
hornverb
To assault with the horns
hornverb
To cuckold
hornnoun
A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. "to navigate around the horn."
hornnoun
A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming u01A1 and u01B0.
Etymology: horn, from hurnan (compare hoorn, Horn, haurn), from k̑r̥nom (compare kern 'horn', cornū, kéras, grŭna, srŭna 'roedeer', surna 'horn', sur, śṛṅga 'horn').
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
HORNnoun
Etymology: haurn, Gothick; horn , Saxon; horn, Dutch.
No beast that hath horns hath upper teeth. Francis Bacon, N. Hist.
Zetus rises through the ground,
Bending the bull’s tough neck with pain,
That tosses back his horns in vain. Joseph Addison, on Italy.All that process is no more surprising than the eruption of horns in some brutes, or of teeth and beard in men at certain periods of age. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
The squire ’gan nigher to approach,
And wind his horn under the castle-wall,
That with the noise it shook as it would fall. Fairy Queen.There’s a post come from my master, with his horn full of good news. William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice.
The goddess to her crooked horn
Adds all her breath: the rocks and woods around,
And mountains, tremble at th’ infernal sound. Dryden.Fair Ascanius, and his youthful train,
With horns and hounds a hunting match ordain. Dryden.She bless’d the bed, such fruitfulness convey’d,
That ere ten moons had sharpen’d either horn,
To crown their bliss, a lovely boy was born. Dryden.The moon
Wears a wan circle round her blunted horns. James Thomson.Love’s feeling is more soft and sensible,
Than are the tender horns of cockled snails. William Shakespeare.Aufidius,
Hearing of our Marcius’s banishment,
Thrust forth his horns again into the world,
Which were inshell’d when Marcius stood for Rome,
And durst not once peep out. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.If I have horns to make one mad,
Let the proverb go with me, I’ll be horn mad. William Shakespeare.Merchants, vent’ring through the main,
Slight pyrates, rocks, and horns for gain. Hudibras, p. ii.I am glad he went not in himself: if he had, he would have been horn mad. William Shakespeare, Merry Wives of Windsor.
ChatGPT
horn
A horn is a pointed, bony projection on the head of various animals, such as cattle, goats, or antelopes. It is composed of keratin and other proteins, and is primarily used for defense and territorial fights. In a broader context, a horn can also refer to a device that makes a loud warning sound, typically found on vehicles or used as musical instruments.
Webster Dictionary
Hornnoun
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
Hornnoun
the antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed
Hornnoun
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
Hornnoun
an incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias)
Hornnoun
something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
Hornnoun
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
Hornnoun
a drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle
Hornnoun
the cornucopia, or horn of plenty
Hornnoun
a vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids
Hornnoun
the pointed beak of an anvil
Hornnoun
the high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg
Hornnoun
the Ionic volute
Hornnoun
the outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc
Hornnoun
a curved projection on the fore part of a plane
Hornnoun
one of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering
Hornnoun
one of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped
Hornnoun
the curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form
Hornnoun
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
Hornnoun
a symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride
Hornnoun
an emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural
Hornverb
to furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to
Hornverb
to cause to wear horns; to cuckold
Etymology: [AS. horn; akin to D. horen, hoorn, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. horn, Goth. harn, W., Gael., & Ir. corn, L. cornu, Gr. ke`ras, and perh. also to E. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. iras head. Cf. Carat, Corn on the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cornet, Cornucopia, Hart.]
Wikidata
Horn
The horn is a brass instrument made of more than 20 feet of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. A musician who plays the horn is called a horn player. In informal use, "horn" refers to nearly any wind instrument with a flared exit for the sound. Descended from the natural horn, the instrument is often informally known as the French horn. However, this is technically incorrect since the instrument is not French in origin, but German. Therefore, the International Horn Society has recommended since 1971 that the instrument be simply called the horn. French horn is still the most commonly used name for the instrument in the United States. Pitch is controlled through the adjustment of lip tension in the mouthpiece and the operation of valves by the left hand, which route the air into extra tubing. Most horns have lever-operated rotary valves, but some, especially older horns, use piston valves and the Vienna horn uses double-piston valves, or pumpenvalves. A horn without valves is known as a natural horn, changing pitch along the natural harmonics of the instrument.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Horn
horn, n. the hard substance projecting from the heads of certain animals, as oxen, &c.: something made of or like a horn, as a powder-horn, a drinking-horn: a symbol of strength: (mus.) a hunting-horn: an orchestral wind-instrument of the trumpet class, with a slender twisted brass tube and bell mouth—also distinctively French horn.—v.t. to furnish with horns.—adj. Horned.—ns. Horn′beak, the garfish; Horn′beam, a tree of Europe and America, the hard white wood of which is used by joiners, &c.; Horn′bill, a bird about the size of the turkey, having a horny excrescence on its bill; Horn′book, a first book for children, which formerly consisted of a single leaf set in a frame, with a thin plate of transparent horn in front to preserve it; Horn′-bug, a common North American beetle; Horned′-horse, the gnu; Horned′-owl, Horn′owl, a species of owl, so called from two tufts of feathers on its head, like horns; Horn′er, one who works or deals in horns: a trumpeter.—adj. Horn′-foot′ed, having a hoof or horn on the foot.—ns. Horn′-gate, one of the two gates of Dreams, through which pass those visions that come true, while out of the ivory-gate pass the unreal; Horn′ie, the devil, usually represented with horns; Horn′ing, appearance of the moon when in its crescent form: (U.S.) a mock serenade with tin horns and any discordant instruments by way of showing public disapproval.—adjs. Horn′ish, like horn: hard; Horn′less, without horns.—n. Horn′let, a little horn.—adj. Horn′-mad, mad with rage, as the cuckold at the moment of discovery.—ns. Hornmad′ness (Browning); Horn′-mak′er (Shak.), a cuckold-maker; Horn′-mer′cury, mercurous chloride or calomel; Horn′-sil′ver, silver chloride; Horn′stone, a stone much like flint, but more brittle [horn and stone]; Horn′work (fort.), an outwork having angular points or horns, and composed of two demi-bastions joined by a curtain; Horn′wrack, the sea-mat or lemon-weed.—adjs. Horn′y, like horn: hard: callous; Horn′y-hand′ed, with hands hardened by toil.—Horn of plenty, the symbol of plenty, carried by Ceres in her left arm, filled to overflowing with fruits and flowers (see Cornucopia); Horns of a dilemma (see Dilemma); Horns of the altar, the projections at the four corners of the Hebrew altar, to which the victim was bound when about to be sacrificed.—Letters of horning (Scots law), letters running in the sovereign's name, and passing the signet, instructing messengers-at-arms to charge the debtor to pay, on his failure a caption or warrant for his apprehension being granted; Pull, or Draw, in one's horns, to restrain one's ardour or one's pretensions; Put to the horn (old Scots law), to outlaw by three blasts of the horn at the Cross of Edinburgh; Wear horns, to be a cuckold. [A.S. horn; Scand. and Ger. horn, Gael. and W. corn, L. cornu, Gr. keras.]
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms
horn
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.
The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
HORN
A sharp point. HORNET Still sharper.
Dictionary of Nautical Terms
horn
The arm of a cleat or kevel.
Editors Contribution
hornnoun
A symbol of power based on the strength of animal horns. An instrument for music or to warn others of reason to wake them out of doubt.
The second lines blows horns to celebrate the going home of their loved ones.
Etymology: Instrument
Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on September 11, 2023
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Entomology
Horn
a pointed chitinous process of the head: in the plural form applied to the antennae; q.v.
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
HORN
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Horn is ranked #655 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Horn surname appeared 52,138 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 18 would have the surname Horn.
85.1% or 44,396 total occurrences were White.
8.6% or 4,510 total occurrences were Black.
2.2% or 1,157 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
1.8% or 949 total occurrences were of two or more races.
1.1% or 615 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
0.9% or 511 total occurrences were Asian.
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Nouns Frequency
Rank popularity for the word 'HORN' in Nouns Frequency: #2135
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of HORN in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of HORN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of HORN in a Sentence
I started honking my horn. I started swerving and we got a little ahead of him and then for whatever reason the cars in front of me kind of parted.
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.
If I'm playing a horn arrangement on keyboard, or strings, it sounds like strings or horns, 'cause I know how to phrase it, how a string phrases, different attacks from the aperture for horns, trumpets, sax or trombones.
The Ukraine crisis has had this ongoing negative impact on world food prices and [added] even more volatility, the supply chains and how they flow to places like East Africa and the Horn of Africa are taking big hits.
My horn is dead, everything is dead.
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