Usually means: Instrument or projection for signaling.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horn, horn, the horn: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. horn, the Horn, the Horn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. horn: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. horn: Collins English Dictionary
  5. horn: Vocabulary.com
  6. Horn, horn: Wordnik
  7. horn: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Horn: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  9. Horn, horn: Wiktionary
  10. horn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. horn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. horn: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. horn, the horn: Dictionary.com
  14. horn: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. horn: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Horn (Chinese constellation), Horn (acoustic), Horn (anatomy), Horn (diacritic), Horn (disambiguation), Horn (district), Horn (heraldry), Horn (instrument), Horn (music), Horn (surname), Horn (video game), Horn, The Horn (Mount Buffalo), The Horn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Horn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. horn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. horn: Rhymezone
  20. Horn (nt), horn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. horn: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. HORN: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  23. Horn: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. horn: Free Dictionary
  25. horn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. Horn, the Horn: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. horn: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. horn: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Essentials of Music (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Jazz Humor (No longer online)
  5. Horn: Encyclopedia of Organ Stops
  6. Horn: Classical Music Guide
  7. Natural Magick (No longer online)
  8. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horn: Corporate Apparel Glossary
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Horn (disambiguation), Horn (instrument), horn, the Horn: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Horn (anatomy), Horn (disambiguation), horn, the Horn: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. HORN: Acronym Finder
  3. horn, the Horn: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Horn: Easton Bible
  2. Horn: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Bird On! (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. Illustrated Glossary of Geologic Terms (No longer online)
  5. Horn: The Orchid Lady's Illustrated Orchid Encyclopedia

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. horn, horn, horn, horn, horn: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. horn: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Horn: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  4. The Horn, horn: Urban Dictionary
  5. Horn: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. Horn: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  5. Space and Electronic Warfare Lexicon (No longer online)
  6. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  7. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See horned as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, zootomy) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
noun:  Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar.
noun:  An antler.
noun:  (uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
noun:  A vessel made from a horn, to contain drink, ink, gunpowder, etc.
noun:  An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia or the point of an anvil.
noun:  One of the two corners of a crescent, particularly of the crescent moon
noun:  The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
noun:  (architecture) The Ionic volute.
noun:  (nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
noun:  (carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
noun:  One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
noun:  (countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.
noun:  (countable, music) An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
noun:  (countable, automotive) A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
noun:  (chiefly sports) A sound signaling the expiration of time.
noun:  (countable) A conical device used to direct waves.
noun:  (informal, music, countable) Generally, any brass wind instrument.
noun:  (slang, countable) A telephone.
noun:  (vulgar, slang, with definite article) An erection of the penis.
noun:  (countable, geography) A peninsula or projecting tract of land.
noun:  (countable) A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư.
noun:  (botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
noun:  (military) In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire.
verb:  (transitive, of an animal) To assault with the horns.
verb:  (transitive) To furnish with horns.
verb:  (transitive, slang, obsolete) To cuckold.
verb:  (intransitive, Singapore, India) To sound the horn of a motor vehicle; to honk.
noun:  Cape Horn, at the southern tip of South America.
noun:  The Horn of Africa, a peninsula of Africa which juts into the Arabian Sea.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  A former civil parish in Rutland, England, abolished in 2016 on the formation of Exton and Horn parish.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Dawes County, Nebraska, United States.

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