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▸ 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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tusk,
trumpet,
French horn,
cornet,
automobile horn,
car horn,
motor horn,
toot,
bugle,
honk,
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