Horn vs. Horny
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)
Hornyadjective
Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Hornyadjective
Having horns
Hornyadjective
(informal) Sexually aroused.
Hornyadjective
Sexually arousing.
Hornyadjective
Having horns or hornlike projections.
Hornyadjective
Composed or made of horn, or of a substance resembling horn; of the nature of horn.
Hornyadjective
Hard; callous.
Hornyadjective
feeling great sexual desire;
Hornyadjective
having horns or hornlike projections;
Hornyadjective
made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn)
