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Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered with a horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.

Having hollow horns.

Born at the same birth.

Vars. of Odal, etc. Obs. exc. in Shetland and the Orkney Islands, where udal designates land held in fee simple without any charter and free of any feudal character.

Not born; no yet brought into life; being still to appear; future. Some unborn sorrow, ripe in fortune's womb. Shak. See future sons, and daughters yet unborn. Pope.

A fabulous animal with one horn; the monoceros; -- often represented in heraldry as a supporter.

Having but a single horn; -- said of certain insects. "Unicornous beetles." Sir T. Browne.

An East Indian plant (Kæmpferia Galanga) of the Ginger family. See Galanga.

The duty of keeping watch and ward (see the Note under Watch, n., 1) with a horn to be blown upon any occasion of surprise. Burrill.

Worn with military service; as, a warworn soldier; a warworn coat. Shak.

Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones.

Worn by the waves. The shore that o'er his wave-worn basis bowed. Shak.

Wearied by traveling.

Worn by the action of, or by exposure to, the weather.

Born of a noble or respect able family; not of mean birth.

Worn by the action of wheels; as, a wheel-worn road.

The hawthorn.

A thorny European shrub (Hippophaë rhamnoides) resembling a willow.

p. p. of Wear. Worn land, land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.

Consumed, or rendered useless, by wearing; as, worn-out garments.