Word Meanings - DEHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .

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• DEHORN
  To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .
• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• DEPRIVEMENT
  Deprivation.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• STARTFULNESS
  Aptness to start.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• DISHORN
  To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.
• JOURNALIST
  1. One who keeps a journal or diary. Mickle. 2. The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.