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Spelling: [hawrnd]

IPA: /hɔrnd/

Horned is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 109 anagrams from letters in horned (dehnor).

Definitions for horned

noun

1. one of the bony, permanent, hollow paired growths, often curved and pointed, that project from the upper part of the head of certain ungulate mammals, as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes.
2. a similar growth, sometimes of hair, as the median horn or horns on the snout of the rhinoceros, or the tusk of the narwhal.
3. antler.
4. a process projecting from the head of an animal and suggestive of such a growth, as a feeler, tentacle, or crest.
5. the bony substance of which such animal growths are composed.
6. any similar substance, as that forming tortoise shell, hoofs, nails, or corns.
7. an article made of the material of an animal horn or like substance, as a thimble, spoon, or shoehorn.
8. any projection or extremity resembling the horn of an animal.
9. something resembling or suggesting an animal horn:
10. a part resembling an animal horn attributed to deities, demons, etc.:
11. Usually, horns. the imaginary projections on a cuckold's brow.
12. Music. a wind instrument, originally formed from the hollow horn of an animal but now usually made of brass or other metal or plastic. French horn.
13. something used as or resembling such a wind instrument.
14. Slang. a trumpet.
15. an instrument for sounding a warning signal:
16. Aeronautics. any of certain short, armlike levers on the control surfaces of an airplane.
17. Radio. a tube of varying cross section used in some loudspeakers to couple the diaphragm to the sound-transmitting space. Slang. a loudspeaker.
18. Slang. a telephone or radiotelephone:
19. the high protuberant part at the front and top of certain saddles; a pommel, especially a high one.
20. Carpentry. (in a door or window frame) that part of a jamb extending above the head.
21. one of the curved extremities of a crescent, especially of the crescent moon.
22. a crescent-shaped tract of land.
23. a pyramidal mountain peak, especially one having concave faces carved by glaciation.
24. a symbol of power or strength, as in the Bible:
25. each of the alternatives of a dilemma.
26. the narrow, more pointed part of an anvil.
27. ear tuft.
28. Metalworking. a projection at the side of the end of a rolled sheet or strip, caused by unevenness of the roll due to wear.
29. Horology. (in a lever escapement) either of the two prongs at the end of the lever fork guarding against overbanking when the guard pin is in the crescent.

Idioms

1. blow / toot one's own horn, Informal. to publicize or boast about one's abilities or achievements:
2. draw / pull in one's horns, to restrain oneself or become less belligerent; retreat:
3. horn in, Informal. to thrust oneself forward obtrusively; intrude or interrupt:
4. lock horns, to conflict, quarrel, or disagree:
5. on the horns of a dilemma, confronted with two equally disagreeable choices.

adjective

1. having horns (often used in combination):
2. having or wearing a horn-shaped protuberance, ornament, or the like:
3. having a crescent-shaped part or form.
4. made of horn.

verb (used with object)

1. to cuckold.
2. to butt or gore with the horns.
3. Shipbuilding. to set up (a frame or bulkhead of a vessel being built) at a proper angle to the keel with due regard to the inclination of the keel on the ways; plumb.

Origin of horned

Middle English word dating back to 1250-1300; See origin at horn, -ed³

Examples for horned

The extremities of the lunar crescent, in which form she is said to be horned.

Don't look any more like Clayte than it does like a horned toad.

Sweetbreads are made in Chicago of the pancreases of horned cattle.

If I am to be horned like a bull, I'll use those same horns.

The male Wiccan god is given horns, representing the horned animals that ancient humans hunted.

A horned owl, with eyes like auntie's when she looks "'stonished."

In Foxe, "grynned;" and the word "horned" before "Bischopis," is omitted.

A horned toad is a good example for us to work out in this department.

And so, the horned god became Satan—and others in his demonic retinue.

In this instance the cloven foot and not the horned head was detected.