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Having permanent horns with a bony core, as cattle.

A small bottle of horn or other material formerly used for holding ink; an inkstand; a portable case for writing materials. "With a writer's inkhorn by his side." Ezek. ix. 2. From his pocket the notary drew his papers and inkhorn. Longfellow.

Pedantry. Sir T. Wilson.

A reed instrument of music of the cornet kind, now obsolete (see Cornet, 1, a.)

See Lantern. [Obs.]

a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy; -- so called from Leghorn, the place of exportation.

Having a long horn or horns; as, a long-horned goat, or cow; having long antennæ, as certain beetles (Longicornia).

A long-horned animal, as a cow, goat, or beetle. See Long- horned.

A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

A horn in which gunpowder is carried.

rown; the under parts, the sides of the head and throat, and the buttocks, are white. The horny sheath of the horns is shed annually. Called also cabrée, cabut, prongbuck, and pronghorned antelope.

Any species of a tribe of butterflies (Fugacia) including the common yellow species and the cabbage butterflies. The antennæ are usually red.

A name given to a numerous family of brass wind instruments with valves, invented by Antoine Joseph Sax (known as Adolphe Sax), of Belgium and Paris, and much used in military bands and in orchestras.

A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.

p. p. of Shear.

One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.

An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan.

See under Stag.

Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.

A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor.