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cient tenure of land, which obliged the tenant to give notice of an invasion by blowing a horn.

Formed of a mixture of horny and calcareous materials, as some shells and corals.

Of a texture resembling horn; horny; hard. Sir T. Browne.

A little horn. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Horned; having horns. Dr. H. More.

A small hornlike part or process.

ram, under Geology.) The Corniferous period has been so called from the numerous seams of hornstone which characterize the later part of the period, as developed in the State of New York.

Producing horns; forming horn.

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

Converted into horn; horny.

Having the shape of a horn; horn-shaped.

Horned; having horns; as, cornigerous animals. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A hornlike tuft of feathers on the head of some birds.

A performer on the cornet or horn.

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

A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.

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

A fossil shell, curved like a ram's horn; an obsolete name for an ammonite.

The horn of plenty, from which fruits and flowers are represented as issuing. It is an emblem of abundance.

To bestow horns upon; to make a cuckold of; to cuckold. [Obs.] Burton.