horn : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a pneumatic horn
  
• noun air intake of a carburetor
  

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• noun one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
  anterior root; ventral root; anterior horn.
  

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• noun a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
  automobile horn; horn; hooter; car horn.
  

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• noun the second lowest brass wind instrument
  baritone.
  

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• noun the lowest brass wind instrument
  sousaphone; tuba.
  

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Bass" horn"

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1. (Mus.) A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

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• noun a tenor clarinet; pitched in the key of F below the B-flat clarinet
  

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Bas"set horn`

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See Basset, a.

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1. (Mus.) An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.

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Broad"-horned` adjective

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1. Having horns spreading widely.

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Buck's"-horn` noun

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1. (Bot.) A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.

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Bu"gle horn`

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1. A bugle.

   One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

2. A drinking vessel made of horn. Obs.

   And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.

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• noun a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego)
  

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• noun a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
  automobile horn; horn; hooter; car horn.
  

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• noun one of the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally to the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers
  dorsal root.
  

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• a drinking vessel made of a horn.

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• noun a double-reed woodwind instrument similar to an oboe but lower in pitch
  cor anglais.
  

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• . (Mus.) See Corno Inglese.

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• a bell, horn, whistle or other contrivance that sounds an alarm, often automatically, near places of danger where visible signals would be hidden in thick weather.

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• (Med.), a substance formerly of great repute in medicine; named from having been supposed to be the bone or the horn of the unicorn.

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• noun a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
  horn.
  

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• a metallic wind instrument, consisting of a long tube twisted into circular folds and gradually expanding from the mouthpiece to the end at which the sound issues; called in France cor de chasse.

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Gems"-horn` noun

Etymology

G., prop., chamois horn.

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1. (Mus.) An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

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• noun brown North American horned owl
  Bubo virginianus.
  

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• adjective satellite having horns that are hollow
  

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Hol"low-horned` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

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• the frame or pedestal in which a railway car axle box slides up and down; also called horn plate.

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• noun a button that you press to activate the horn of an automobile
  

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• a disease of cattle, affecting the internal substance of the horn.

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• a wheel with long curved scoops, for raising water.

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• noun small black European fly introduced into North America; sucks blood from cattle especially at the base of the horn
  Haematobia irritans.
  

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• verb search or inquire in a meddlesome way
  intrude; poke; pry; nose.
  
  • This guy is always nosing around the office

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• (Chem.), chloride of lead.

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• a maker of cuckolds. Obs. Shak.

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• . (Min.) Same as Horn quicksilver (below).

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• . See under Dilemma.

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• noun a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia
  Somali peninsula.
  

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• noun a goat's horn filled with grain and flowers and fruit symbolizing prosperity
  cornucopia.
  

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• noun yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
  horn poppy; Glaucium flavum; horned poppy; sea poppy.
  

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• (Bot.), a plant allied to the poppy (Glaucium luteum), found on the sandy shores of Great Britain and Virginia; called also horned poppy. Gray.

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• (Med.), abortive smallpox with an eruption like that of chicken pox.

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• (Min.), native calomel, or bichloride of mercury.

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• (Zoöl.), any long, sharp, spiral, gastropod shell, of the genus Cerithium, and allied genera.

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• (Min.), cerargyrite.

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• a gray, siliceous stone.

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Horn"-mad` adjective

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1. Quite mad; -- raving crazy.

   Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after? Gray.

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• adjective satellite having the frame made of horn or tortoise shell or plastic that simulates either
  
  • horn-rimmed glasses

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• adjective satellite shaped in the form of a horn
  

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• noun highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
  cerastes; Cerastes cornutus; sand viper; horned asp.
  

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• noun a kind of chameleon
  Chamaeleo oweni.
  

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• noun any of several four-footed herbivorous dinosaurs with enormous beaked skulls; of the late Cretaceous in North America and Mongolia
  ceratopsian.
  

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• noun insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America
  horned lizard; horny frog.
  

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• noun large owls having prominent ear tufts
  

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• noun found in still or slow-moving fresh or brackish water; useful to oxygenate cool water ponds and aquaria
  Zannichellia palustris.
  

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• noun yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
  horn poppy; Glaucium flavum; horned poppy; sea poppy.
  

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• noun catfish common in eastern United States
  pout; Ameiurus Melas; hornpout.
  

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• noun northern Pacific puffin
  Fratercula corniculata.
  

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• noun small pale-colored desert rattlesnake of southwestern United States; body moves in an s-shaped curve
  sidewinder; Crotalus cerastes.
  

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• noun screamer having a hornlike process projecting from the forehead
  Anhima cornuta.
  

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• noun insectivorous lizard with hornlike spines on the head and spiny scales on the body; of western North America
  horned lizard; horny frog.
  

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• noun European viola with an unusually long corolla spur
  tufted pansy; Viola cornuta.
  

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• noun highly venomous viper of northern Africa and southwestern Asia having a horny spine above each eye
  cerastes; Cerastes cornutus; sand viper; horned asp.
  

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• noun a whiff found in waters from the Bahamas and northern Gulf of Mexico to Brazil
  Citharichthys cornutus.
  

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• a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, and Bulge.

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• noun pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids
  Sarracenia flava; trumpets; huntsman's horn; yellow pitcher plant; yellow trumpet.
  

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• noun pitcher plant of southeastern United States having erect yellow trumpet-shaped pitchers with wide mouths and erect lids
  Sarracenia flava; trumpets; huntsman's horn; yellow pitcher plant; yellow trumpet.
  

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• (Scots Law), the process or authority by which a person, directed by the decree of a court of justice to pay or perform anything, is ordered to comply therewith.

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• noun a river that flows from northern Wyoming into the Bighorn River in southern Montana; site of Custer's Last Stand
  Little Bighorn; Little Bighorn River.
  

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Long"-horned` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Obs. Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

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• noun long-bodied beetle having very long antennae
  longicorn; longicorn beetle.
  

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• noun grasshoppers with long threadlike antennae and well-developed stridulating organs on the forewings of the male
  tettigoniid.
  

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Mor"sing horn`

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1. A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. Scot. Sir W. Scott.

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• noun a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
  automobile horn; horn; hooter; car horn.
  

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• noun wind instrument used by postilions of the 18th and 19th centuries
  

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• a horn, or trumpet, carried and blown by a carrier of the public mail, or by a coachman.

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• noun container for carrying gunpowder; made of the hollow horn of an animal
  powder flask.
  

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• verb make a retreat from an earlier commitment or activity
  back away; back out; crawfish; pull back; crawfish out; withdraw; retreat.
  
  • We'll have to crawfish out from meeting with him
  • He backed out of his earlier promise
  • The aggressive investment company pulled in its horns

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• noun annual of southern United States to Mexico having large whitish or yellowish flowers mottled with purple and a long curving beak
  common unicorn plant; Proboscidea louisianica; elephant-tusk; devil's claw; common devil's claw; proboscis flower.
  

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• . (a) (Fort.) A low semicircular work situated in and commanding a ditch . Written also ramshorn. Farrow. (b) (Paleon.) An ammonite.

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• noun a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
  horn.
  

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• noun grasshopper with short antennae
  acridid.
  

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Slug"-horn` adjective

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1. An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

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• noun cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope; characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat
  Pseudoryx nghetinhensis; forest goat.
  

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• noun large branching coral resembling antlers
  staghorn coral.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of large branching corals of the genus Madrepora, which somewhat resemble the antlers of the stag, especially Madrepora cervicornis, and M. palmata, of Florida and the West Indies.

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• (Bot.), an Australian and West African fern (Platycerium alcicorne) having the large fronds branched like a stag's horns; also, any species of the same genus.

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• (Bot.), a common American shrub (Rhus typhina) having densely velvety branchlets. See Sumac.

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Stag"-horned` adjective

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1. (Zoöl.) Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

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• verb face a difficulty and grapple with it without avoiding it
  

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• noun of arid and semiarid open country
  Phrynosoma cornutum.
  

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• (Script.), to exalt one's self; to act arrogantly. "'Gainst them that raised thee dost thou lift thy horn?" Milton.

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• to withdraw some arrogant pretension. Colloq. = to pull in one's horns

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• to take a drink of intoxicating liquor. Low

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• to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it.

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• noun one of two the two roots of a spinal nerve that passes ventrally from the spinal cord and that consists of motor fibers
  anterior root; ventral root; anterior horn.
  

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• noun yellow-flowered Eurasian glaucous herb naturalized in along sandy shores in eastern North America
  horn poppy; Glaucium flavum; horned poppy; sea poppy.
  

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