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A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.
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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.
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An antler.
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The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects.
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an umbrella with a handle made of horn
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An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid.
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Any of several musical wind instruments.
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An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others.
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hunting horn
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A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.
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A sound signaling the expiration of time.
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The shot was after the horn and therefore did not count.
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A conical device used to direct waves.
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antenna horn
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Generally, any brass wind instrument.
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(from the horn-shaped earpieces of old communication systems that used air tubes) A telephone.
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Get him on the horn so that we can have a discussion about this.
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(definite article) An erection of the penis.
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A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.
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to navigate around the horn
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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.
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An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).