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The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.

One of a group of aquatic beetles (Palpicornia) having short club-shaped antennæ, and long maxillary palpi.

To perform. [Obs.] Chaucer. Piers Plowman.

A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).

A wind instrument or pipe, with a horn at each end, -- used in Wales.

Having the pile worn off; threadbare.

A ruminant having solid horns or antlers, as the deer. Brande & C.

An ear tuft of feathers, as in the horned owls.

An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective). Bacon.

Lascivious; licentious. [R.] F. Harrison.

Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious; as, pornographic writing.

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

The posterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A horn in which gunpowder is carried.

The anterior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

own; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.

Any quadricornous animal.

Having four horns, or hornlike organs; as, a quadricornous beetle.

To adorn again or anew.