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Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped.

A man that wears the horns; a cuckold. [R.] Shak.

Strong, stiff, or hard, like a horn; resembling horn. Up stood the cornu reed. Milton.

Of or pertaining to a crown; ferming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland. "Coronary thorns." Bp. Pearson. The catalogue of coronary plants is not large in Theophrastus. Sir T. Browne.

hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.

The upper part of a horse's hoof, where the horn terminates in skin. James White.

different points of a common axis, the outermost blossoms expanding first, as in the hawthorn.

lectognath fish (Ostracoin quadricorne, and allied species), having two projections, like horns, in front; -- called also cuckold, coffer fish, trunkfish.

e small, sharp, sudden noises, rapidly or frequently repeated; to crepitate; as, burning thorns crackle. The unknown ice that crackles underneath them. Dryden.

The making of small, sharp cracks or reports, frequently repeated. As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. Eccl. vii. 6.

A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

[Written also crease and kris.] From a Malayan creese to a sailor's jackknife. Julian Hawthorne.

The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.

A mineral occuring in silky fibers of a lavender blue color. It is related to hornblende and is essentially a silicate of iron and soda; -- called also blue asbestus. A silicified form, in which the fibers penetrating quartz are changed to oxide of iron, is the yellow brown tiger-eye of the jewelers.…

A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

of death. Crossbones, scythes, hourglasses, and other lugubrios emblems of mortality. Hawthorne.

EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.

A pack of hounds. Milton. A cry more tunable Was never hollaed to, nor cheered with horn. Shak.

ower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. Tennyson.

ished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.