horn 
2885 
quantity of corn formerly given yearly to the 
lord of the manor for every ox worked in the 
plow on lands within his jurisdiction. Cot- 
. under droiet. 
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Audition, Ornith^Biog.,T. 298.' Iiorn-band (horn'band), n. A band of trumpet- 
ers Russian horn-band, a band of musicians each 
one of whom plays upon a horn a single note only of the 
scale. The horns vary in length from 12 feet to 9 inches, 
I saw a dolphin hang i' the horns of the moon, 
Shot from a wave. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 1. 
The angelic squadron bright 
Turn'd fiery red, sharpening in mooned horn* 
Their phalanx. Milton, f. L., iv. 978. 
Ere ten moons had sharpen'd either horn. Dryden. 
The horns, or extremities of the bow, were two large homaget, [( horn + -age. after the equiv. 
tufts of cocoa-nut-trees. Coo*, Voyages, I. i. 7. F. coriuige, < L. cornu (= E. horn) + -aye.] A 
(0) The horn of a cow or other animal, or, now, any simi- t:i ~ ~* * ' ' 
lar case or flask, used for holding gunpowder; a powder- 
horn or powder-flask. 
Each man . .'. places a ball in the palm of his hand, 
pouring as much powder from his horn upon it as will 
cover it. 
. pi. A head-dress worn during the first half of the fif- 
.eenth century, thegeneral shape of which was thatof a pair 
of horns spreading like those of an ox. These head-dresses 
consisted of stuffs embroidered and set with jewels, or of 
nets (compare crespine) by which the hair was entirely or 
almost entirely concealed, a veil covering the whole, (r) 
A projecting part of a head-dress, especially of that of 
women in the fourteenth century, (j) Ecclei., either of 
the corners or angles made by the front and ends of an 
altar. In Christian churches, that at the left of the priest 
when facing the altar is the gospel horn; that at his 
right, the epistle horn. 
Bind the sacrifice with cords, even unto the horns of 
the altar. Ps. cxviii. 27. 
(*) In the Bible, a symbol of strength, power, or glory. 
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off ; but the 
liorm of the righteous shall be exalted. Ps. Ixxv. 10. 
And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the hombeak (hdrn'bek), n. 
house of his servant David. Luke i. 69. horn-eel, 2. 
(0 In railroad-cars, a part rigidly fastened to the coupler or hornbeam (horn'bem), M. 
draw-bar, by means of which the coupler and buffer-springs ' 
are connected. Car-Builder's Diet, (m) Either of two pro- 
jections on a side-saddle, serving to support the right leg. 
(nt) The beak of an anvil, (o) A branch of a subdivided 
stream. 
With sevenfold horns mysterious Nile 
Surrounds the skirts of Egypt's fruitful soil. 
Dryden, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 409. 
(p) Naut., one of the ends of the crosstrees. (j) One of 
the alternatives of a dilemma. See dilemma, 1. (rt) The 
imaginary projection on the brow of a cuckold. [Low.] 
[This use, derived through Italian from Greek, is extreme- pinus 
ly frequent in the plays of Shakspere and his contempo- ' With thee, where Easna's horn-beam grove 
raries.] j ta forage o ' er me interwove, 
If I have horns to make me mad, let the proverb go with Along the lonely path I've stray'd. 
me ; I'll be horn mad. Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 6. J. Scott, Ode to Leisure. 
(*) In bot., any process or appendage which is shaped horn-beastt (h&rn'best), n. An animal with 
somewhat like the horn of an animal, as the spur of the homi- a hm-norl Vinoot 
petals in Linaria, or the crest borne by the hoods in Asele- 
pias. Here we have no temple but the wood, no assembly but 
5. A draught of strong liquor: as, to take a lum-beasts. 
horn-beech (horn'bech), . Same as hornbeam. 
hornbill (horn'bil), n. A large non-passerine 
bird of the family Bucerotidte : so called from 
horn-coot 
adjust (the frames of a ship) in process of con- the monoclinic system with a' prismatic angle 
struction so that they shall be exactly at right of 124i. Parallel to this, the fundamental prism it 
angles with the line of the keel. has perfect cleavage. It occurs usually In massive forms, 
varying in structure from compact to columnar and fibrous, 
with the fibers parallel or curved, and also, but less often, 
lamellar. In composition it varies widely, from the white 
tremolite, a silicate of calcium and magnesium, to the 
green actinolite, which contains also more or less iron, 
and to the dark-green, brown, a'nd black varieties, parga- 
site and common hornblende, which contain alumina as 
well as lime, magnesia, and iron ; manganese is also pres- 
ent in some varieties, and less commonly sodium and po- 
tassium. Asbestos, mountain-cork, and mountain-leather 
are Included here, and nephrite or jade ia a tough, com- 
pact variety. Hornblende is a constituent of many crys- 
according to the pitch of the note, and to play the chro- 
matic scale through a compass of 3 octaves requires 37 
players. This method of performing music was invented, 
with a suitable system of notation, by J. A. Maresch, a 
Bohemian domiciled in Russia, who gave his first per- 
formance before the imperial court in 1755. His method 
has been preserved in Russia down to the present time. 
It admits of the performance with precision of somewhat 
complicated music, including runs, trills, and other em- 
bellishments, but the artistic value of the result is neces- 
sarily small. 
horn-bar (h6rn'bar), . The cross-bar of a car- 
riage, or the gearing supporting the fore-spring 
stays. 
The garfish : same as 
A small tree be- 
longing to the genus Carpinus, of the natural 
order Cupuliferce. The American hornbeam, also call- 
ed blue beech, water-beech and ironwood, is C. Carolini- 
ana or Americana. It is a shrub or small tree, 10 to 20 
talline rocks, as syenite, diorite, hornblende schist, some 
kinds of trachyte, andesite, etc. The name amphibole is 
often used as the general term to Include all the varieties. 
The hornblende or amphibole group of minerals includes 
also the related orthorhombic species anthophyllite, and 
the monoclinic arfvedsonite, crocidolite, glaucophane, etc. 
In geology, hornblende or hornblendic is often prefixed 
to names of rocks to indicate the accidental presence in 
greater or less quantity of that mineral, in addition to the 
other ingredients which the rock usually contains. Horn- 
blende is a frequent result of the metamorphism of other 
minerals, especially of augite. Hornblende andesite. 
See andesite. Hornblende basalt, a very basic rock of 
holocrystalline texture, somewhat porphyritic, contain- 
ing a comparatively small amount of feldspar and scat- 
tered crystals of hornblende. It is a characteristic rock of 
the Rhongebirge in Bavaria, etc. Hornblende gabbro, 
a variety of gabbro in which the diallage is more or less 
replaced by hornblende. Hornblende rock, a rock con- 
sisting chiefly of black or dark-green hornblende, but of- 
ten Intel-laminated with feldspar, quartz, or mica. Also 
called nmphibolite.. The same rock when it has a schistose 
character is called hornblende slate or hornblende schist. 
Labrador hornblende. 
feet high, with very heavy, hard, close-grained wood, which .Labrador hornblende. See hypersthene. 
is 8on)etlme8 uset > in making carpenters' tools, handles, aOrnblencUC (horn-blen dik), a. [<]iornblende + 
etc ' Tne Eur P ean hornbeam, C. Betulus, is also a small -fc.] Containing hornblende ; resembling horn- 
horn. See def. 4 (d). [Colloq.] 
The chaplain gave us a pretty stiff horn of liquor apiece. 
W. E. Burton, Waggeries. 
6. In arch., the Ionic volute Alpine horn, a 
long trumpet used by the Swiss mountaineers for sig- 
naling ana for musical effects. Anialthea's horn the 
cornucopia, or horn of plenty. 
With fruits, and flowers from Amalthea's horn. 
Milton, P. R., ii. 358. 
At the horn*, put out of the protection of the law ; pro- 
claimed an outlaw. Ribton-Turner, Vagrants and Va- 
grancy, p. 354, note. [Slang.] Bass horn, a large deep 
horn, once used in military bands. English horn a 
tenor oboe. See oboe. French horn, the orchestral 
horn. See def. 4 (c). Horn for the thumbt, a kind of 
horn thimble worn by pickpockets on the thumb to sup- 
pjort the edge of the knife in cutting out purses. 
I have your name, now I remember me, in my hook of 
homers; horns for the thumb, you know how. 
Middleton and Dekker, Hearing Girl, v. 1. 
Horn of plenty, or cornucopia,, in classical myth., the 
horn of the goat Amalthea by which the infant Zeus was 
suckled, broken off by him and endowed with the quality 
of becoming filled with whatever its possessor might wish 
for ; hence, in representation, a goat's horn as a symbol 
of plenty or abundance in general. Horn-Of-plenty 
grass, an Oriental grass, Cornucopias cucuUatum.Jn a 
norn, not at all : a humorous expression of doubt or denial* 
as, he will do it in a horn (that is, will not do it). Some- 
times, in provincial English use, extended to in a horn 
when the devil is blind. [Colloq. or slang.] Sax horn. 
Seesaxhorn To blow the buck's hornt. Seeoueti. 
To come out at the little end of the horn, to come off 
ill from any encounter or experience ; come to grief : used 
especially of one who completely fails in a boastful or 
(h&rn'bl6'6r), n. [< 
earlier hornblawere, < AS. 
hornblawere, < horn, horn, + blaw- 
ere, blower.] One who blows a 
horn ; a trumpeter. 
The Horn-blmrer [at Ripon] winds a horn 
every morning at nine o'clock, before the 
mayor's door and at the town cross. 
Jlunicip. Corp. Reports, 1835, p. 1710. 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 3. hornbook (hdrn'buk), n. 1 . A leaf 
ME. *hom- 
or page, usually one containing the 
alphabet, the nine digits, and the 
Lord's Prayer, covered with trans- 
parent horn and fixed in a frame with a han- 
dle : formerly used in teaching children to read. 
He teaches boys the horn-book. Shak., L. L. L., v. 1. 
To Master John the English Maid 
A Horn-book gives of Ginger-bread ; 
And that the Child may learn the better, 
As he can name, he eats the Letter. 
Prior, Alma, il. 
Hence 2. A book containing the first prin- 
ciples of any science or branch of knowledge ; 
a primer. 
horn-bug (horn'bug), n. A very common North 
American beetle, Passahis cornutus, of the fam- 
ily Lucanida;, of large size, elongate form, and 
shining black color with pitch-black legs, the 
elytra sulcate with regularly impressed lines of 
punctures, and the head armed with a stout 
curved horn. Its whitish larva, found in decaying 
Rhinoceros Hombill (Bueeros rhinoceros). 
pretentious undertaking. [Colloq. ] To pull ordraw in 'I 16 norn y casque, in some cases of enormous 
one's horns, to repressone's ardor, or restrain one's pride: 
in allusion to the snail's habit of withdrawing its feelers 
when startled. To put to the horn, in old, Scots law, 
to denounce as a rebel ; outlaw for not appearing in the 
court of summons. This was done by a messenger-at-arms, 
who proceeded to the cross at Edinburgh, and among 
other formalities gave three blasts with a horn, by which 
the person was understood to be proclaimed rebel to the 
king for contempt of his authority. To take the bull by 
the horns. See bulli. Valve-horn, a musical horn 
with valves for altering the pitch of particular tones 
horn (horn), v. t. [< horn, ,] 1. To furnish 
with horns. 2f. To cause to wear 
as the mark of a cuckold ; cuckold. 
' horns " 
[Low.] 
Vol. I not repent me of my late disguise. 
Mas. If you can horn him, sir. you need not. 
B. Jomon, Volpone, ii. 2. 
The moon embraces her shepherd ; 
And the queen of love her warrior; 
While the first does horn 
The stars of the morn, 
And the second the heavenly farrier. 
Tom o' Bedlam. 
size, which surmounts the bill. The bill is itself 
very large, like that of a toucan, on which account the 
hornbills have been associated with the toucans ; they must 
be classed, however, with the kingfishers and hoopoes, 
notwithstanding the slightnessof their superficial resem- 
blance to these birds. There are two groups of hornbills, 
the tree-hornbills and ground-hornbills. The latter, which 
constitute the genus Buconue, have the casque quite hol- 
low and in some cases open in front. One of the largest of 
the tree-hornbills is the rhinoceros hornbill, Buceros rhino- 
ceros, having a bill nearly afoot in length, and surmounted 
by a horn nearly as large. It inhabits Sumatra. The con- 
cave-casqned hornbill of Asia is B. bicornin. A Philip- 
pine species is B. hydrocorax. African hornbills are chiefly 
of the genera Toclcus, as T. erythrorhynchus, and Bycanis- 
tes, as B. buccinator ; the ground-hornbills are also exclu- 
Hom-bug (Passatus cortiutus), natural sire. 
rva ; b, pupa ; ?, beetle ; ct, under side of three thoracic joint* 
of larva, showing legs ; t, metathoracic leg of larva. 
stumps and logs, has the third pair of legs rudimentary, 
but the two anterior pairs are well developed. Rile.y, 4th 
Mo. Ent. Rep., p. 139. 
sively African. All these'singuTar birds are for the most horn-card (horn'kard), . A transparent plate 
iglvorous, and some of them are known to have of horn graduated for use on charts, either as 
a protractor or for meteorological purposes, to 
represent the direction of the wind in a cyclone. 
Smyth. 
hornbill-cuckoo (h6rn'bil-kuk"6), . An ani. horn-coot (hdrn'kot), , The long-eared owl, 
the curious habit of imprisoning the female in the hole in 
which she lays her eggs, by stopping up the entrance, leav- 
ing room only to pass in food to her during her confine- 
ment. 
See Crotophaga. 
Agio ottis. [Local, Eng.] 
