horn-core 
horn-core (horn'kor), . The core of a horn; 
a projection or process of the frontal bone on 
which the corneous substance of a horn is sup- 
ported and molded. It is true bone, of which 
the horny substance forms only a sheath. 
The horns of the Bovidie consist of permanent, conical, 
usually curved, bony processes, into which air-cells con- 
tinued from the frontal sinuses often extend, called httrn- 
currs, ensheathed in a case of true horn. 
If. //. floicer, Encyc. Brit., XV. 4S1. 
hprn-CUirass (horn'kwe-ras"), ii. A coat of 
fence made of scales of horn stitched to a gar- 
ment of leather or stuff. See scale-armor. 
horn-distemper (h6rn'dis-tem"per), n. A dis- 
ease of cattle affecting the internal substance 
or core of the horn. 
horn-drum (hdrn'drum), . A wheel having 
curved partitions which separate it into sec- 
tions, used for raising water. E. H. Knight. 
horned (hornd), a. [< ME. horned (with restored 
vowel), < AS. hyrned (with mutated vowel) (= 
OHG. ffi-hurnet, MHG. ge-hiirntt, G. ge-hiirnt = 
Dan. hornet; = L. cornutus, > E. cornute, q. v.) ; 
as horn + -eri 2 .] Furnished with a horn or 
horns, or something resembling a horn in its 
nature, use, position, or appearance : as, horned 
cattle; a horned lizard; the horned moon. 
In that Desert ben many wylde men, that ben hidouse 
to loken on : for thei ben horned . 
Mandei'ille, Travels, p. 274. 
O, that I were 
Upon the hill of Basan, to outroar 
The horned herd ! Slmk., A. and 0., ill. 11. 
The dim and horned moon hung low. Shelley, Alastor. 
Specifically (a) In ornith., having feathers on the head 
projecting like horns : as, the horn>-d owl ; a horned grebe. 
(6) In entom., having one or more large horn-like projec- 
tions. See cut under horn-owi. (ct) Mltered. Halliwell. 
(d) In her. , having horns : an epithet used when their tinc- 
ture is different from that of the rest of the creature. 
Horned beetle, frog, grebe, hog, horse, lark, owl, 
pheasant, poppy, pout, ray, screamer, etc. See the 
nouns. Horned syllogism. See syllogism and dilem- 
ma, l. Horned toad, viper, etc. See the nouns. 
Horned wavey, in her. See wavey. 
hornedness (hornd'nes or h6r'ned-nes), it. The 
state of being horned. 
The antient Druids had their superstitious Rites at the 
Changes of the Moon. The tfomedness of the New Moon 
is still faintly considered by the vulgar as an Omen with 
Regard to the Weather. 
Bourne's Pop. Antiq. (1777), p. 880. 
horn-eel (horn'el), H. 1. The larger sand-lance. 
[Prov. Eng.] 2. The garfish, Belone vulgarly: 
so called from its elongated body and produced 
jaws. [Prov. Irish.] 
hornel (hor'nel), . [Reduced form of horn- 
eel.] The horn-eel. [Prov. Eng.] 
hornent (hdr'nen). a. [ME. hornen (with re- 
stored vowel), < AS. Jiyrnen (= OHG. Iiiiniiti, 
MHG. hilrnen, tiornin, G. liomern), of horn, < 
horn, horn: see horn and -ew 2 .] Of horn. 
In voia of the hornene trumpe. 
Wyclif, Ps. xcvii. a (Oxf.). 
horner (hdr'ner), n. [< ME. Jiornere, hornare 
(= MD. MLG. horener), a trumpeter; < horn + 
-ar 1 .] 1. One who blows a horn ; a horn-player; 
a trumpeter. 2. One who works or deals in 
horn. 
Even the horns of cattle are prohibited to be exported ; 
and the two insignificant trades of the horner and comb- 
maker enjoy, in this respect, a monopoly against the gra- 
ziers. Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations, iv. 8. 
3f. One who horns or cuckolds. [Low.] 4. 
In old Scots law, one who had been put to the 
horn, or publicly denounced and proscribed; 
an outlaw. [Rare or obsolete in all uses.] 
horneresst, n. A female horn-maker. Pals- 
grave. 
Homer's method of approximation. See ap- 
proximation. 
Homer's muscle. See muscle. 
hornet (hor'net), H. [< ME. "hornet (with re- 
stored vowel ; not found), < AS. hyrnet, hyrnete, 
hyrnette, hyrnetu (with mutated vowel), earliest 
instance hurnitu (in a gloss, "crabro, waefs 
[wasp] vel hurnitu"), = MLG. hornte, hornetse 
= OHG. hornuz, hornaz, MHG. hornuz, horniz, 
G. horniss; G. dial. dim. hornissel = MD. hornsel, 
horsel, hursel (Kilian), D. horzel, a hornet; ap- 
par. < AS. OHG., etc., horn, with the same for- 
mative that appears in another deriv. from the 
same ult. root, namely, AS. heor-ot, heor-t, E. 
hart = OHG. hiruz, G. hirsch (see hartl and 
horn), the ref. being to the hornet's horns or 
antennae, or to the buzzing sound it makes; 
cf. MLG. horener, a hornet, also a trumpeter, 
'horner,' OLG. " horn-beron, crabrones," hor- 
nets, lit. ' horn-bearers,' i. e. (perhaps) ' trum- 
peters,' = AS. horn-bora, tr. L. cornicen, a trum- 
Ainehcan Hornet [ t'tspo ma 
natural size. 
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peter. The connection with horn is further 
shown by OFries. horen-bie, a hornet (Kilian), 
lit. a 'horn-bee,' horm-torcn, a wasp (Kilian), 
LG. homkf, a hornet : cf. Imniken, a little horn; 
cf. G. dial, hnriierh, and E. dial, honiirli; a hor- 
net. But this connection may have originated 
in popular etymology; and the word may be 
really cognate with L. crabro (for "crasro (?) ; 
cf. L. tenebrte as related to Skt. tamisra: see 
dim), a hornet, and with the Slavic, etc., forms : 
OBulg. srftsha, a wasp, srushcm, a hornet, = 
Bohem. srch, srshen, sryhan = Pol. szerszen = 
Russ. shershene, etc., a hornet; OPruss. sirsilis, 
hornet, = Lith. shirshlis, shirshu, a wasp ; cf. 
Bohem. srsheti, buzz. Observe that icasp also has 
cognate forms in L., Slav., Lith., etc.] 1. An 
insect of the 
wasp family, 
of the genus 
Fespa, much 
larger and 
stronger than 
wasps of other 
species, and 
capable of in- 
flicting a more 
severe anil 
painful sting. 
Hornets congre- 
gate in a cellular 
nest formed of a 
substance resem- 
bling coarse paper, elaborated from leaves and particles 
of wood. The nest is sometimes pendent, and sometimes 
placed in a hollow tree. The European hornet, V. crabro, 
and the American hornet, or yellow-jacket, V. maculata, 
are similar in character and habit. The name is often 
used for any large orformidable wasp, especially one whose 
sting is exceptionally painful. 
He's like a hornet now, he hums and buzzes 
Nothing but blood and horror. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage, IT. 4. 
Who seem a swarm of Hornets buzzing out 
Among their Foes, and humming round abont, 
To spet their spight against their Enemies, 
With poysonie harts, in noses, brows, and eyes. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Decay. 
2. Figuratively, a person who annoys by fre- 
quent and persistent petty attacks. 
More than one sultan, hoping to rid themselves of the 
annoyance, titled out expeditions against the island with 
the design of crushing the hornets in their nest. Prescott. 
To bring a nest of hornets about one's ears, to stir 
up enemies against one's self; bring upon one's self a 
swarm of troubles or vexations. 
hornet-clearwing (hor'net-kler'wing), n. A 
hornet-moth, as ftesia airiformis or S. bembeci- 
formis. 
hornet-fly (hor'net-fli), H. A dipterous insect 
of the family Asilidte; a robber-fly. 
hornet-moth (hor'net-mdth), n. A moth of 
the family Sesiida; and genus fiesta or JEgeria : 
as, the lunar hornet-moai, Sesia bembeciformis. 
horn-finch (horn'finch), . The stormy petrel, 
Procellaria pelagica. [Local, Eng.] 
horn-fish (h6rn ; fish), n. [< ME. (not found), < 
AS. hornfisc (= Icel. hornfiskr = Sw. Dan. horn- 
fink), garfish, < horn, horn, + fisc, fish.] 1. 
The garfish, Belone vulgaris : so called in allu- 
sion to the projecting jaws. [Prov. Eng.] 2. 
A species of Syix/nathida; a pipe-fish: so named 
in reference to the texture of the exoskeleton. 
3. The sand-pike or sauger, Stizostedium cana- 
dense, a percoid fish : so named in allusion to 
its color. 
hornfoott (horn'fut), a. Having a hoof: hoofed. 
Hakewill. 
horn-footed (hdrn'fut'ed), a. [ME. not found ; 
AS. horn-foted, horn-footed.] Hoofed. [Rare.] 
Jingle of bits, 
Shouts, arrows, tramp of the hornfooted horse 
That grind the glebe to powder ! Tennyson, Tiresias. 
hornful (hora'ful), n. [< horn + -fid.] As 
much as a horn holds : said of a drinking-cup 
or powder-flask, especially one made of horn. 
See horn, 4 (d) and (g). 
horngeld (hdrn'geld), n. Same as carnage. 
Hornie, . See Horny. 
hornify (hor'ni-fi), v. t.\ pret. and pp. horni- 
Jied, ppr. hornifying. [< horn + -4-fy : see -fy.] 
1. To make horny or of the consistence of 
horn. 
A wrought-iron stalk IB partly encased in a tube of vul- 
canite, or hornified india-rubber. 
Dredge's Electric Illumination, I., App., p. IxxxiL 
2f. To cuckold. [Low.] 
This versifying my wife has hornijled me. 
Beau, and Fl., Four Plays in One. 
horning (hdr'ning), n. [Verbal n. of horn, i\] 
1. The appearance of the crescent moon. 
horn-of-plenty 
They account . . . from the hominy (of the moon], which 
iB the cause why they set up in their steeples a crescent. 
J. Greyori/, Posthuma, p. 108. 
2. A mock serenade with tin horns and other 
discordant instruments, performed either in 
humorous congratulation, as of a newly married 
couple, or as a manifestation of public disap- 
proval, as of some obnoxious person. [Local, 
U.S.] 
A few moments after the ceremony a gun was heard 
outside the signal for the homing, without which in 
that region no wedding would be thought complete. 
Examiner and Chronicle. 
3. Public proclamation by the blowing of a 
horn; specifically, same &ajetters of hominy. 
[Scotch. ] Letters of horning, in Scots law, a process 
issued under the signet, after a debt has been judicially 
established, directing a messenger to charge the debtor 
to pay within a specified time, under pain of being de- 
clared rebel, with a warrant also to seize movables, etc. 
See caption. 
hornisht (hdr'uish), a. [< 7in< + -/*7< ] .] Some- 
what like horn ; horny. 
Temperance, as if it were of a htmiith composure, IB too 
hard for the flesh. Sir M. Sandys, Essays (1634), p. 21. 
hornist (hor'nist), H. [< horn + -ist.] A horn- 
player. 
hornito (hor-ne'to), . [Sp., dim. of liorno, an 
oven, kiln, furnace: see homo.'] In ijcol., a low 
oven-shaped mound, common in the volcanic 
districts of South America, usually emitting 
from its sides and summit hot smoke and other 
vapors. Hornitos are only from 5 to 10 feet high, and 
according to Humboldt are not eruptive cones, but mere 
intumescences on the fields and sides of the larger volca- 
nos. Also called hortto. 
In every direction [In the lava desert in Iceland] there 
are innumerable hornitos, seemingly formed originally of 
a variety of strands of the fiery ooze twisted into all sorte 
of fantastic shapes, the outer surface suggestive of a tan- 
gle of intertwisted snakes of inordinate thickness. 
Nature, XXX. 564. 
hornkecket, The garfish, Belone vulgaris. 
Palsgrave. 
horn-lead (horn'led),w. Leadchlorid: so called 
by the old chemists because it assumes a horny 
appearance in fusing. See phosgenite. 
hornless (h&rn'les), a. [< horn + -less.] Hav- 
ing no horns. 
The cattle of the highlands of Scotland are exceedingly 
small, and many of them, males as well as females, are 
hornless. Pennant, Brit Zobl., The Ox. 
Heaps of mill, hornless unicorns . . . 
And shatter d talbots, which had left the stones 
Raw that they fell from. Tennyson, Holy Grail. 
hornlessness (horn'les-nes), n. The state of 
being destitute of horns. 
Herodotus's opinion as to the cause of hornlessness has 
been accepted by many writers down to modern times. 
Amer. Naturalist, XXI. 897. 
hornlet (horn'let), n. [< horn + -let.] A lit- 
tle horn or projection. 
Wings . . . embracing the keel and the hornlets of the 
awning. Sir W. Janes, Select Indian Plants, No. 60. 
horn-machine (hdrn'ma-shen"), . A machine 
for sewing on shoe-soles : so called because the 
shoe is placed on a horn. 
horn-mad (horn'mad), a. Mad with rage at 
having been made a cuckold. See horn, 4 (>). 
Keep him from women, he thinks h'as lost his mistress ; 
And talk of no silk stuffs, 'twill run him hom-m<td. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, ill. 7. 
horn-madness (hdrn'mad"nes), H. The state of 
being horn-mad ; raving madness. 
Somebody courts your wife, Count? Where and when? 
How and why? Mere homtnadness : have a care. 
Browning, Ring and Book, II. 83'2. 
horn-mail (horn'mal), n. Scale-armor consist- 
ing of plates of horn. See scale-armor. This 
armor has been used by Oriental nations, and was intro- 
duced by the Emperor Henry V. of Germany as the de- 
fensive dress of a body of his troops. Horn has been 
found a valuable adjunct to defensive armor on account 
of its glossy surface, from which weapons glance. Com- 
pare tilting -target. 
horn-maker (h6rn'ma //r ker), n. 1. One who 
makes horns, especially drinking-cups so call- 
ed. 2t. A maker of cuckolds. [Low.] 
Virtue is no horn-maker ; and my Rosalind is virtuous. 
Shak., As you Like it, iv. 1. 
horn-mercury (hfirn'mer^ku-ri), . Mercu- 
rous chlorid, or calomel: so called by the old- 
er chemists because when fused it assumes a 
horny appearance. See calomel. Also horn- 
quick.nlver. 
horn-mullet (h&rn 'muFet), H. The stone-roller 
or black sucker, Hypentelium or Catostoiiitm m- 
gricans. [Chesapeake Bay.] 
horno (hfir'no), n. [Sp., an oven, kiln, furnace, 
< L. furnus, fornus, an oven, furnace: see fur- 
nace.] Same as hornito. 
horn-of-plenty (horn'ov-plen'ti), . A Euro- 
pean plant, Fedia Cornucopia. 
