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A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit. Humboldt.

Having no horn.

A yearling; a bird of the year.

See Horned Owl.

The garfish. [Prov. Eng.]

les at intervals. It was so called because the bell at the open end was sometimes made of horn.

See Horned pout, under Horned.

A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.

A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.

Any one of family (Uroceridæ) of large hyminopterous insects, allied to the sawflies. The larvæ bore in the wood of trees. So called from the long, stout ovipositors of the females.

An outwork composed of two demibastions joined by a curtain. It is connected with the works in rear by long wings.

An aquatic plant (Ceratophyllum), with finely divided leaves.

A bryozoan of the genus Flustra.

Having horns or hornlike projections. Gay.

Having the hands horny and callous from labor.

Any North American river chub of the genus Hybopsis, esp. H. biguttatus.

A curved wooden horn about three feet long, with a cupped mouthpiece and a bell, used by the Swiss to sound the ranz des vaches and other melodies. Its notes are open harmonics of the tube.

An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively in military music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.

A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone.

An instrument blown with a reed, and resembling a clarinet, but of much greater compass, embracing nearly four octaves.