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A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.

Having four corners or angles.

A lamellicorn insect.

A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.

Long-horned; pertaining to the Longicornia. -- n.

A division of beetles, including a large number of species, in which the antennæ are very long. Most of them, while in the larval state, bore into the wood or beneath the bark of trees, and some species are very destructive to fruit and shade trees. See Apple borer, under Apple, and Locust beetle, under Locust.…

A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Prov Eng.]

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

See Mangcorn.

Same as Mangcorn.

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

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 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.