Horn vs. Honk

Hornnoun

(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

Hornnoun

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.

Hornnoun

An antler.

Hornnoun

(uncountable) The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.

Hornnoun

An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.

Hornnoun

The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.

Hornnoun

(architecture) The Ionic volute.

Hornnoun

(nautical) The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.

Hornnoun

(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.

Hornnoun

One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.

Hornnoun

(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.

Hornnoun

An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.

Hornnoun

A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

Hornnoun

A sound signaling the expiration of time.

Hornnoun

(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.

Hornnoun

Generally, any brass wind instrument.

Hornnoun

A telephone.

Hornnoun

An erection of the penis.

Hornnoun

A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

Hornnoun

(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.

Hornnoun

(botany) An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

Hornverb

(of an animal) To assault with the horns

Hornverb

To cuckold

Hornnoun

A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.

Hornnoun

The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

Hornnoun

Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form;

Hornnoun

An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).

Hornnoun

Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

Hornnoun

One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

Hornnoun

The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

Hornnoun

The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.

Hornnoun

A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

Hornnoun

An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.

Hornnoun

the telephone; as, on the horn.

Hornnoun

a body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.

Hornverb

To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

Hornverb

To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

Hornnoun

a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

Hornnoun

one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

Hornnoun

a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

Hornnoun

a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

Hornnoun

a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Hornnoun

any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn

Hornnoun

the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

Hornnoun

an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

Hornnoun

a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

Hornnoun

a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

Hornverb

stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;

Hornnoun

a hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

Hornnoun

a woolly keratinized outgrowth, occurring singly or one behind another, on the snout of a rhinoceros.

Hornnoun

a deer's antler.

Hornnoun

a projection resembling a horn on the head of another animal, e.g. a snail's tentacle or the tuft of a horned owl.

Hornnoun

a pair of horns as an emblem of a cuckold.

Hornnoun

marital infidelity

Hornnoun

the substance of which horns are composed

Hornnoun

a receptacle made of horn, such as a drinking container or powder flask.

Hornnoun

a horn-shaped projection or object.

Hornnoun

a sharp promontory or mountain peak.

Hornnoun

Cape Horn.

Hornnoun

an arm or branch of a river or bay.

Hornnoun

each of the extremities of a crescent moon.

Hornnoun

an erect penis.

Hornnoun

a wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.

Hornnoun

short for French horn

Hornnoun

(in jazz and popular music) any wind instrument

Hornnoun

a device sounding a warning or other signal

Hornverb

(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns

Hornverb

be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife)

Honkverb

To use a car horn.

Honkverb

(intransitive) To make a loud, harsh sound like a car horn.

Honkverb

(intransitive) To make the vocal sound of a goose.

Honkverb

(informal) To vomit: regurgitate the contents of one's stomach.

Honkverb

(informal) To have a bad smell.

Honkverb

(informal) To squeeze playfully, usually a breast or nose.

Honknoun

The sound produced by a typical car horn.

Honknoun

The cry of a goose.

Honknoun

(informal) A bad smell.

Honkinterjection

Imitation of car horn, used, for example, to clear a path for oneself.

Honknoun

The cry of a wild goose.

Honknoun

To make a sound like the honk of a goose.

Honknoun

To sound the horn on an automobile or other motor vehicle.

Honknoun

the cry of a goose (or any sound resembling this)

Honkverb

make a loud noise;

Honkverb

use the horn of a car

Honkverb

cry like a goose;

Honkverb

eject the contents of the stomach through the mouth;

Honknoun

the cry of a wild goose.

Honknoun

the harsh sound of a car horn.

Honkverb

make or cause to make a honk

Honkverb

vomit.