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Horn

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.

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Alarm 76% connected

A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.

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Alarum 76% connected

See Alarm.

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Alert 76% connected

Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.

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Appendage 76% connected

Something appended to, or accompanying, a principal or greater thing, though not necessary to it, as a portico to a house.

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Brass 76% connected

An alloy (usually yellow) of copper and zinc, in variable proportion, but often containing two parts of copper to one part of zinc. It sometimes cont…

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Device 76% connected

That which is devised, or formed by design; a contrivance; an invention; a project; a scheme; often, a scheme to deceive; a stratagem; an artifice.

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Outgrowth 76% connected

That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.

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Pierce 76% connected

To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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Pommel 76% connected

A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form

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Process 76% connected

The act of proceeding; continued forward movement; procedure; progress; advance.

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Saddlebow 76% connected

The bow or arch in the front part of a saddle, or the pieces which form the front.

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Thrust 76% connected

Thrist.

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Antler 76% connected

The entire horn, or any branch of the horn, of a cervine animal, as of a stag.

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Baleen 76% connected

Plates or blades of "whalebone," from two to twelve feet long, and sometimes a foot wide, which in certain whales (Balaenoidea) are attached side by…

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Serpent 76% connected

Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a large snake. See Illust. under Ophidia.

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Whalebone 76% connected

A firm, elastic substance resembling horn, taken from the upper jaw of the right whale; baleen. It is used as a stiffening in stays, fans, screens, a…

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Horny 74% connected

Having horns or hornlike projections.

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Horny 74% connected

Having horns or hornlike projections.

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Auto 70% connected

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Bull 70% connected

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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Car 70% connected

A small vehicle moved on wheels; usually, one having but two wheels and drawn by one horse; a cart.

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Goat 70% connected

A hollow-horned ruminant of the genus Capra, of several species and varieties, esp. the domestic goat (C. hircus), which is raised for its milk, fles…

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Machine 70% connected

In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmi…

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Ram 70% connected

The male of the sheep and allied animals. In some parts of England a ram is called a tup.

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Tup 70% connected

To butt, as a ram does.

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Bone 70% connected

The hard, calcified tissue of the skeleton of vertebrate animals, consisting very largely of calcic carbonate, calcic phosphate, and gelatine; as, bl…

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Keratin 70% connected

A nitrogenous substance, or mixture of substances, containing sulphur in a loose state of combination, and forming the chemical basis of epidermal ti…

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Synonym 4

Cornet 92% connected

An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.

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Trump 92% connected

A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.

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Trumpet 92% connected

A wind instrument of great antiquity, much used in war and military exercises, and of great value in the orchestra. In consists of a long metallic tu…

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Tusk 92% connected

Same as Torsk.

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