Definitions for horns

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horns horn

Spelling: [hawrn]

IPA: /hɔrn/

Horns is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 41 anagrams from letters in horns (hnors).

Definitions for horns

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.
30. Cape. Cape Horn.

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. 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 horns

before 900; Middle English horn(e) (noun), Old English horn; cognate with Dutch horen, Old Norse, Danish, Swedish horn, German Horn, Gothic haurn, Latin cornu cornu,

Examples for horns

There had been no indication in von horn's attitude toward the girl that he loved her.

As cars approached a group of about 20 men and women, a cry went out: “Honk your horn!”

His multinote improvisations were so thick and complex they were almost flowing out of the horn by themselves.

In the horn of Africa, the U.S. military has long eschewed the use of drones in favor of manned aircraft for operational reasons.

A car parked at a red light honked its horn in rhythm with the chant as the crowd passed in front of it.

So I asked the driver to honk the horn, which he does, and Rod looks over.

The Coromandel was bound to Cadiz, and thence round the horn.

If the hunter fires then, over the horn, he will strike the beast's backbone.

The passage was a fine one, as we doubled the horn at midsummer.

The horn will resound in welcome, the drawbridge will be lowered for us.