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The Rocky Mountain sheep (Ovis or Caprovis montana).

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A plant of the genus Lycium, esp. Lycium barbarum.

Having horns spreading widely.

A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia coronopifolia.

us) of shrubs or trees. The shorter branches of some species terminate in long spines or thorns. See Rhamnus. Sea buckthorn, a plant of the genus Hippophaë.

A bugle. One blast upon his bugle horn Were worth a thousand men. Sir W. Scott.

The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).

The buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshiana) of the Pacific coast of the United States, which yields cascara sagrada.

One of several prickly or thorny shrubs found in Palestine, especially the Paliurus aculeatus, Zizyphus Spina-Christi, and Z. vulgaris. The last bears the fruit called jujube, and may be considered to have been the most readily obtainable for the Crown of Thorns.

A small bronze mortar mounted on a wooden block with handles, and light enough to be carried short distances by two men.

See Coehorn.

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal (1886).

To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.

An organ stop with conical tin pipes.

A variety of the common hawthorn. Loudon.

A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.

The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.

A thorny shrub or tree (the Cratægus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It is much used in Europe for hedges, and for standards in gardens. The American hawthorn is Cratægus cordata, which has the leaves but little lobed. Gives not the hawthorn b…

Hawthorn. R. Scot.