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See Mangcorn.

A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

Same as Mangcorn.

Bearing a horn, or horns, on the nose, as the rhinoceros.

A cordlike organ composed of elastic fibers situated above the ventral nervous cord of annelids, like the earthworm. -- Neu`ro*cor"dal, a.

The product of nine times twenty; ninescore units or objects.

Heart-shaped, with the attachment at the pointed end; inversely cordate: as, an obcordate petal or leaf.

Comprehending or including all bodies; embracing all substance. [R.] Cudworth.

To confront, or subdue, with greater scorn. Shak.

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

A secondary or inner corolla; a corona, as of the Narcissus.

An extensive division of ruminants, including the antelopes, deer, and cattle.

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

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

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

See Precoracoid.

The front part of the thoracic region; the epigastrium.