Whalebone: alternatives and connections

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

A division of the Cetacea, including the right whale and all other whales having the mouth fringed with baleen. See Baleen.

The great Arctic or Greenland whale. (Balaena mysticetus). See Baleen, and Whale.

The sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus). It has in the top of its head a large cavity, containing an oily fluid, which, after death,…

Native silver chloride, a mineral of a white to pale yellow or gray color, darkening on exposure to the light. It may be cut by a knif…

Conversion into, or formation of, horn; a becoming like horn.

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.

A tenor clarinet; -- called also basset horn, and sometimes confounded with the English horn, which is a tenor oboe.

A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn.

A huge ray (Manta birostris / Cephaloptera vampyrus) of the Gulf of Mexico and Southern Atlantic coasts. Several other related species…

Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle…

Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twiste…

In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring.

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; -- applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles,…

An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanent…

Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.

Having horns or hornlike projections.