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- DictionaryHorn/hôrn/
noun
- 1. a hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.
- 2. the substance of which horns are composed: "powdered rhino horn"
verb
- 1. (of an animal) butt or gore (someone or something) with the horns.
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The meaning of HORN is one of the usually paired bony processes that arise from the head of many ungulates and that are found in some extinct mammals and reptiles. How to use horn in a sentence.
the hard substance from which the hard part on the head of some animals is made: The handle of the knife was made of horn, perhaps elk or deer. Many traditional medicines call for ivory or rhino horn. [ C ] a part on an animal's head that sticks out in a similar way to a horn: The snail pulls in its horns.
Anatomy and physiology of an animal's horn. A horn is a permanent pointed projection on the head of various animals that consists of a covering of keratin and other proteins surrounding a core of live bone. Horns are distinct from antlers, which are not permanent.
A horn is any of a family of musical instruments made of a tube, usually made of metal and often curved in various ways, with one narrow end into which the musician blows, and a wide end from which sound emerges.
horn, the orchestral and military brass instrument derived from the trompe (or cor) de chasse, a large circular hunting horn that appeared in France about 1650 and soon began to be used orchestrally. Use of the term French horn dates at least from the 17th century.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
horn, in music, any of several wind instruments sounded by vibration of the player’s tensed lips against a mouthpiece and primarily derived from animal horns blown at the truncated narrow end or, as among many tropical peoples, at a hole in the side.
a process projecting from the head of an animal and suggestive of such a growth, as a feeler, tentacle, or crest. the bony substance of which such animal growths are composed. any similar substance, as that forming tortoise shell, hoofs, nails, or corns.
