horn

horn is a 4-letter English word with 34 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 7 · 34 senses

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
5. noun. Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
6. noun. 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.
7. noun. A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
8. noun. The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
9. noun. A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
10. noun. The pointed beak of an anvil.
11. noun. The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
12. noun. The Ionic volute.
13. noun. The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
14. noun. A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
15. noun. One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
16. noun. One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
17. noun. The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
18. noun. 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.
19. noun. A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
20. noun. An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
21. transitive verb. To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
22. transitive verb. To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
23. noun. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
24. noun. any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn
25. noun. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

    Synonyms: hooter

26. noun. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

    Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet

27. noun. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
28. noun. an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound
29. noun. a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
30. noun. a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
31. noun. a device having the shape of a horn

    "horns at the ends of a new moon"

    "the hornof an anvil"

32. noun. a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning
33. noun. the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
34. verb. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk

    "the rhino horned the explorer"

    Synonyms: tusk

Synonyms

hooter, cornet, trump, trumpet, tusk

Common word forms

horns, horned, horner, hornful, horning, hornless

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