Word Meanings - PLUMICORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

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• HORN-MAD
  Quite mad; -- raving crazy. Did I tell you about Mr. Garrick, that the town are horn-mad after Gray.
• HORNBOOK
  1. The first book for children, or that from which in former times they learned their letters and rudiments; -- so called because a sheet of horn covered the small, thin board of oak, or the slip of paper, on which the alphabet, digits, and often
• HORNSTONE
  A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
• HORNING
  Appearance of the moon when increasing, or in the form of a crescent. J. Gregory. Letters of horning , 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
• HORNY-HANDED
  Having the hands horny and callous from labor.
• HORNET
  A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American
• HORNBLENDE
  The common black, or dark green or brown, variety of amphibole. It belongs to the aluminous division of the species, and is also characterized by its containing considerable iron. Also used as a general term to include the whole species. Hornblende
• HORNY
  1. Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay. 2. Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn. "The horny . . . coat of the eye." Ray. 3. Hard; callous. "His horny fist." Dryden.
• HORNTAIL
  Any one of family of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.
• HORNPOUT
  See HORNED
• HORNWRACK
  A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.
• HORNER
  The British sand lance or sand eel . (more info) 1. One who works or deal in horn or horns. Grew. 2. One who winds or blows the horn. Sherwood. 3. One who horns or cuckolds. Massinger.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• HORNISH
  Somewhat like horn; hard.
• HORNYHEAD
  Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.
• HORNED
  Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee , a British wild bee , having
• HORNBEAK
  A fish. See Hornfish.
• HORNWORT
  An aquatic plant , with finely divided leaves.
• HORNPIKE
  The garfish.
• HORN
  Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl.
• 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 .
• PRONGHORN
  An American antelope , native of the plain near the Rocky Mountains. The upper parts are mostly yellowish brown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called
• THORN-HEADED
  Having a head armed with thorns or spines. Thorn-headed worm , any worm of the order Acanthocephala; -- called also thornhead.
• THORNBUT
  The turbot.
• THORNSET
  Set with thorns. Dyer.
• ALTHORN
  An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.
• ALPENHORN; ALPHORN
  A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.
• BUGLE HORN
  1. A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott. 2. A drinking vessel made of horn. And drinketh of his bugle horn the wine. Chaucer.
• GREENHORN
  A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
• BASSET HORN
  An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.
• COHORN
  See COEHORN
• STAG-HORNED
  Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
• BROAD-HORNED
  Having horns spreading widely.
• COEHORN
  A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.