hornotine 
hornotine (h6r'no-tin), n. [< L. hornotinus, of 
this year, < hornu's, of this year (adv. horno, this 
year), perhaps contr. of *hovernus, < hie, abl. hoc, 
this (cf. hodie, this day, to-day), + ver, spring 
(for 'year'): see vernal.] In ornith., a bird of 
the year; a yearling. 
horn-owl (horn'oul), re. See owl. 
hornpie (horn'pi), n. The lapwing, Vanellus 
cristatus. [Norfolk and Suffolk, Eng.] 
' pike; cf. 
2887 
horologium 
I mean a child of the horn-thumb, a babe of booty, boy, from the center of the sphere as an origin is 
a cutpurse. B. Jmaon, Bartholomew Fair, ii. l. constantly parallel to the normal surface round 
I cut this from a new-married wife, a closed contour drawn upon that surface. 
By the help of a horn-thumb and a knife. horographer (ho-rog'ra-fer), re. [As horogra- 
Oreene and Lodge, Looking Glass for Lond. and Eng. n g 1 .^ ^ S&me^s horologiographer. 
Hence 2. A pickpocket. horbgraphy (ho-rog'ra-fi), re. [= F. horographie, 
horn-tip (horn' tip), n. A button or knob place I ^ g v upoypaty'ui, in pi. ' upoypaipiat, annals, \apo- 
on the end of the horn of an animal, as a guard j, p( tyo?, writing history by seasons or years, an 
annalist, < upa, season, period, hour, + ypa<j>eiv, 
write.] 1. An account of the hours. 2. The 
art of constructing instruments for marking 
the hours, as clocks, watches, or dials ; dialing. 
Qr fop ornament . 
hornweed (horn'wed), n. 
. , . Same as hornplant. 
horn-pike (horn'pik), . [< Mm + put; t. n0 rnwoodt, a. [Early mod. E. hornewood; < 
liurn-lish. The A.S. horn-pic means horn-peak, h orn + W0oa 2. Cf. horn-mad.] Same as ftoni- 
the pinnacle of a temple.] The horn-nsh or ?Bflrf stanihurst . horologe (hor'6-16j), , [< ME. horologe, oro- 
hornwork(h6rn'werk), . In fort., ,a work with i^ o *loge, horlege, orli(,e, etc., <OF. horologe, 
one front only, thrown out beyond the glacis, 
for the purpose 
garfish, 
hornpipe (horn' 
ii 
pipe ; < horn + 
fo 
[< ME. 
,,.,, . I .- - J 1. A musical instrument 
Jormerly used in England and Wales, perhaps 
the precursor of the English horn. 
To awake 
The nimble horn-pipe, and the tlmburine, 
And mix our songs and dances in the wood. 
B. Jonson, Sad Shepherd, i. 2. 
2. An English country-dance of varied and 
hilarious character, usually performed by one 
person, and very popular among sailors. 
Wherever in a lonely grove 
He set up his forlorn pipes, 
The gouty oaks began to move, 
of occupying 
rising ground, 
b? "" g ' d - 
Plan of Parts of a Fortification. 
a, hornworlc. 
And flounder Into hornpipes. 
Te 
. 
Tennyson, Amphion. 
3. Music for such a dance or in its style. 
horn-pith (h&rn'pith), . The soft porous bone 
that fills the entire cavity of a horn. 
Vast quantities of dilute phosphoric acid are formed In 
glue factories, by treating with muriatic or sulphuric acid 
and water bones and horn-piths. 
C. T. Davis, Leather, p. 349. 
hornplant (horn'plant), n. A 
Ionia buccinalis : probably so 
a de- 
file, covering 
a bridge-head, 
strengthening 
any weak sali- 
ent, or protect- 
ing buildings, the including of which in the ori- 
ginal enceinte would have extended it to an in- 
convenient degree. The front consists of two demi- 
bastions connected by a curtain, and usually defended, as 
In an independent fortress itself, by tenail, ravelin, and 
covered way. The flanks are protected by ditches, and 
run straight upon the ravelin, bastion, or curtain of the 
main defense, so that the ditch may be swept by the latter. 
As the turne came about, I watched on a home worke 
neere our quarters. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 6, 1641. 
Where once they form'd their troops, Brigades, 
Their hornworks, rampires, pallizados. 
Cotton, Scarronides, p. 6. 
L seaweed, Eck- h onrw . or t (hdrn'wert), n. An aquatic plant of 
' h nus Ceratohllum the sinle secies of 
the genus Ceratophyllum, the single species 
horloge, F. horloge = It. orologio = (with loss 
of first syllable) Pr. reloge, relotge = Sp. relax, 
reloj = Pg. relogio, a clock or dial, < L. horolo- 
gium, < Gr. apoMytov, an instrument for telling 
the hour (upoUyiov aiuofhipiKov, a sun-dial, apo- 
Uyiov i>dpai>fa.Kov, a water-clock, clepsydra), < 
opo/loyof, lit. 'telling the hour' (applied to an 
Egyptian priest or acolyte who carried a hor- 
ologe), < upa, hour, -t- t.iyeiv, speak, tell. Cf. 
horology.'] 1. A piece of mechanism for indi- 
cating the hours of the day ; a clock ; a time- 
piece of any kind. 
I, whom thou seest with horyloge in hande, 
Am named tyme. 
Sir T. Mure, Pageant, Int. to Utopia (trans.), p. Ixviii. 
Repeated smoke-clouds, whereon, as on a culinary hor- 
ologe, I might read the hour of the day. For it was the 
smoke of cookery. Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, p. 129. 
On the left stands the slender octagon tower of the hor- 
ologe. Longfellow, Hyperion, 1. 6. 
2f. One who tells the hour; a servant formerly 
employed to call out or announce the hours. 
The kok that orloge is of thorpis lyte. 
Chaucer, Parliament of Fowls, 1. 350. 
leathery frond. Also called hornweed. which, C. demersum, is common in ponds and horologer (ho-rol'o-jer), . [< horologe or ho- 
horn-plate (horn'plat), n. One of the guide- glow s t; reams j n mos t parts of the world. See rology + -cr 1 '.] 1'. One versed in horology, a 
plates in the pedestal of a car-truck, serving cut under ceratophyllacece. 
to hold the axle-box, and permit it to move up j! 0rnwrac t (h6rn ' rak), n. The sea-mat or 
and down under the changing tension of the i emonwee( i, a kind of polyzoan. See Fluslra. 
springs; an axle-guard. horny (h6r'ni), a. and n. K horn + -y^. The 
horn-player (horn'pla"er), . A performer upon ear if er a( jj. was Tiorara.] I. a. 1. Consisting 
or composed of horn, or something like horn ; 
corneous. 
the horn. 
horn-pock, horn-pox (hdrn'pok, -poks), n. A 
light form of smallpox or of chicken-pox: a 
name loosely applied. 
horn-poppy (h6rn'pop"i), n. Same as horned 
P PI>y (which see, under poppy). 
horn-pout (horn'pout), n. Same as horned pout 
(which see, under pouft). 
You have pleasanter memories of going after pond- 
lilies, of angling for horn pouts that queer bat among 
the fishes. Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 241. 
horn-pox, . See horn-pock. 
horn-press (horn'pres), n. A special form of 
stamping-machine for closing the side seams 
of tin cans and boxes. 
horn-presser (h&rn'pres'fer), n. A horn-maker. 
The name refers to the practice of pressing horn softened 
by heat into shape by means of molds, etc. 
horn-quicksilver (horn'kwik"sil-ver), n. Same 
as horn-mercury. 
horn-Shavings (h6rn'sha*vingz), n. pi. Scrap- 
ings or raspings of the antlers of deer. 
horn-shoot (horn'shot), '. t. To incline or di- 
verge : said of any stone or timber which should 
be parallel with the line of a wall. Halliwell. 
[North. Eng.] 
horn-silver (h&ra'sil'ver), n. Silver chlorid: 
so called because when fused it assumes a horny 
appearance. See ceraryyrite. 
hornsman (hdrnz'man), n. ; pi. hornsmen (-men). 
[< horn's, poss. of horn, + -man.] The horned 
adder or plumed viper, Clotho cornuta. 
writer on horology. 2. A maker or vender of 
clocks and watches. 
Master George Heriot . . . paused at the shop-door of 
... the ancient horologer, and having caused Tunstall, 
who was in attendance, to adjust his watch by the real 
time, he desired to speak with his master. 
Scott, Fortunes of Nigel, v. 
horologia, . Plural of horologion and horolo- 
gium. 
Food to Elijah bringing. Miiion, P. R., ii. 267. horologic (hor-o-loj'ik), a. [< L. horologicus, 
Keach me the weapons of the shooting god, < Gr. Spotoyuttf, telling the hour, < upo/.6y<x;\ see 
horologe.] 1. Pertaining to a horologe or to ho- 
rology. 2. In bot., opening and closing at cer- 
tain hours : said of flowers. 
horological (hor-o-loj'i-kal), a. [< horologic + 
__, -al.] Same as horologic. 
.ench'd a hatchet in his Aornyflst. Dryden. h oro l gi grapher (hor-o-16-ji-og'ra-fer), n. 
Unwonted tears throngjo the fcomi/ eyes^ ^ ^ r^s korologiography + -er 1 .] A describer or a 
Him thought, he by the brook of Cherith stood, 
And saw the ravens with their horny beaks 
Apollo's gift, the shafts and horny bow. 
J. Hughes, Orestes, i. 2. 
2. Resembling horn; hard or otherwise like 
horn; callous: as, horny hands. 
Tyrrheus, the foster-father of the beast, 
Then cle 
SAKe2/,"Prometheus "Unbound, i 
maker of clocks or'dials. Also horographer. 
The inside [of the walnut] can hardly be extracted in i loro i o ri OCTat ,l 1 i c (hor-o-16 / 'ii-6-Kraf'ik), a. [As 
eces of any bigness, because of the horny intervening noroiogiogl dpim-y iyi < u i<^ji y g*. r/VS- 
lies Pop. &. Mo., xxv. 437. horologiography + -ic.] 
piece 
ridg 
Pertaining to horolo- 
Speciflcally-(o) In erKom., chitinous: used to designate giography. _..,. r , 
any hard part of the integument or interior organs of an horologiography (hor-O-lo-Jl-Og ra-n). n. [^ 
insect. (6) In bot., hard and close in texture, but not (j,, upoUyiov, a horologe, + ypcujiia, < yf 
brittle, as the albumen of many plants, (c) In sponges, 
fibrous; ceratodous, as an ordinary sponge, as distin- 
guished from a chalk-sponge or a glass-sponge. 
3. Having a horn or horns; having corns, cal- 
losities, or processes like horns. Horny sponge. 
See sponge. 
II. re- [cap.] The devil, as usually repre- 
sented with horns : generally with the prefix 
ipoUytov, a horologe, + ypwpia, <. yp&Qeiv, 
write, describe.] 1. An account of instru- 
ments that mark the hour of the day. 2. The 
art of constructing timepieces, as clocks, watch- 
es, and dials ; horography. 
horologion (hor-o-16'ji-on), n.; pi. horologia 
(-a). Same as horology, 2. 
The Horologion . . . contains the daily hours of prayer, 
so far as respects their immoveable portions. 
J. M. Neale, Eastern Church, i. 848. 
The wampum- handed. 
old (Scotch auld). Also spelled Hornie. [Prov. 
Eng. and Scotch.] 
Oh thou ! whatever title suit thee, horologist (ho-rol'o-jist), re. [As horology -t 
Auld Bornie, Satan, Nick, or Clootie. .i s t 1 One versed in horology ; a maker of time- 
Bum*, Address to the De'il. 
horny-fisted (hor'ni-fis'ted), a. Same as horny- 
As the horoloqist, with interjected finger, arrests the 
beating of the clock. S. L. Stevenson, Markhelm. 
horn-snake (horn'snak), . 
snake, Farancia dbacura. See Farancia. [Lo- horny-handed (hor'ni-han^ded), a. Having the horologium (hor-o-16'ji-um), n. ; pi. horologia 
cal, U. S.] hands hardened or calloused by labor. (_ a ) J-L., < Gr. upoUytov, an instrument for 
All in the same instant a blaze of lightning discovered Soft and tender as any woman was that horny-handed, Celling the hour, in ML. and MGr. a clock : see 
the maimed form and black and red markings of a " has- snell, peremptory little man. hnrnloap 1 1 A clock 
tard hornmake." G. W. Cable, The Century, XXXV. 733. br. J. Brown, Rab and his Friends, p. 8. * 
hqrnstone (horn'ston), . A very compact sili- The prejudice against the horny-haruted toiler extete. g7 
clous rock, differing but little from flint. It is 
usually of a dark color, and occurs in nodular masses and hornyhead (hor'm-hed), re. Ihe American 
bands. The term is rarely used, and no distinct line of river-chub, Hybopsis biguttatus or kentttckiensis, 
division can be drawn between flint, hornstone, and chert. commO n cyprinoid fish of the fresh waters 
Hornstone is used in pottery-manufacture to make the ,V TT -t i aV 41 .olla^ .Wl-^v 
grinding-blocks of flinfcmuis. of the United States. Also called jeiker. 
horn-SWivel (horn'swiv"!), n. A hook-swivel horny-hoolet (hor'm-he'let), re. The long- 
made of horn. eared owl, Asia otus. Also hornie-hoolet, horny- 
horntail (horn'tal), n. A terebrant hymenop- oolet. [Scotch.] 
terous insect of the family Urocerida;; a tailed homywink (h&r'ni-wingk), re. [Cf. the Gael, 
wasp : so called from the prominent horn at the name, adharcan-ltiachrach, i. e. little horn ot 
end of the abdomen of the male. It is related the rushes.] The lapwing, Vanellus crtstatus. 
to the saw-fly. See Sirex and Urocerits. [Prov. Eng.] 
horn-thumbt (horn'thum), re. 1. A shield or horograph (hor'o-graf), re. [< Gr. opof, a boun- 
thimble of horn for the thumb, used by pick- dary, limit, + ypd^tv, write.] A closed curve 
pockets as a protection in cutting out purses. 
182 
traced on a sphere so that the radius vector 
that genuine clocks existed then, though there is no sur- 
viving description of any one until the 13th century, when 
it appears that a horologium was sent by the sultan of 
Egypt in 1232 to the Emperor Frederick II. 
Encyc. Brit., VI. 18. 
2. Same as horology, 2. 3. [cap.] A south- 
ern constellation of twelve stars, inserted by 
Lacaille east of Eridauus. Its brightest star 
is of the fourth magnitude Horologlum Floras, 
or Flora's clock, (a) A horologe composed of different 
growing flowers, in which the hour is supposed to be shown 
by the successive opening and closing of certain developed 
buds. Thus, in England, the flower of the chicory opens 
from 4 to 6 A. M. ; of the dandelion, from 6 to 6; of thepim- 
pernel, after 8 ; and of the tiger-lily, from 11 to 12. (6) In 
lot., a table of the hours at which the flowers of certain 
plants open and close in a given locality. 
