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An instrument of music formerly popular in Wales, consisting of a wooden pipe, with holes 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.

An account of the hours. Chaucer.

A servant who called out the hours. [Obs.]

A maker or vender of clocks and watches; one skilled in horology.

Relating to a horologe, or to horology.

A maker of clocks, watches, or dials.

Of or pertaining to horologiography. Chambers.

An account of instruments that show the hour.

One versed in horology.

The science of measuring time, or the principles and art of constructing instruments for measuring and indicating portions of time, as clocks, watches, dials, etc.