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Having two horns; two-horned; crescentlike.

Before. [Obs.]

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.

Brought forth, as an animal; brought into life; introduced by birth. No one could be born into slavery in Mexico. Prescott.

Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.

, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.…

A valuable ore of copper, containing copper, iron, and sulphur; -- also called purple copper ore (or erubescite), in allusion to the colors shown upon the slightly tarnished surface.

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

Corn of grain of which bread is made, as wheat, rye, etc.

Having horns spreading widely.

A variety of Sorghum vulgare, having a joined stem, like maize, rising to the height of eight or ten feet, and bearing its seeds on a panicle with long branches, of which brooms are made.

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

s) 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).

A private corner. Britain being a by-corner, out of the road of the world. Fuller.

A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.

Of or pertaining to California. -- n.

ers at the winter solstice, about December 21. See Tropic. The sun was entered into Capricorn. Dryden.