noun
- A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
- One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
- A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;.
- A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather.
- synonyms: saddle horn
- A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves.
- Any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
- The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.
- A device having the shape of a horn.
- usage: "horns at the ends of a new moon"; "the hornof an anvil"; "the cleat had two horns"
- An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound.
- A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves.
- synonyms: French horn
- A device on an automobile for making a warning noise.
- synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, motor horn, hooter
verb
- Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk.
- usage: "the rhino horned the explorer"
- synonyms: tusk
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