Horn
A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
The pointed beak of an anvil.
The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
The Ionic volute.
The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.
A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.
One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.
One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.
The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.
The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn.
A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.
An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.
To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.
To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.
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Horn Quotations
Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.
Will Rogers
I hate to blow my own horn, but I gave a lot of people fits.
Bo Jackson
I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.
Roger Bannister
Not only the bull attacks his enemies with curved horn, but also the sheep, when harmed fights back.
Sextus Propertius
I don't think it's blowing my own horn to say the show is not as good. There was chemistry there that took years and years to build and now that's gone. The commentary is lacking.
Jerry Lawler
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
Dick Dale
One bites into the brass mouthpiece of his wooden cudgel, and the other blows his cheeks out on a French horn. Do you call that Art?
Franz Schubert
Mainly I was able to perform with music - I played the French horn, I would sing, and I was a drummer in the pipe band. So I think it was a way to show off.
Ewan McGregor
I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
Ornette Coleman
It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
O. Henry
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
Van Wyck Brooks
You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
Karl Malone
You never toot your own horn.
Zakk Wylde
If you don't live it, it won't come out your horn.
Charlie Parker
When I found the music of Monk I finally found music that fit that horn. Every one of his tunes fit it perfectly.
Steve Lacy
I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.
Norman Wisdom
I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.
Herb Alpert
But if I didn't have to make money, I would still play my horn.
Sonny Rollins
I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
Don Van Vliet
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's up and it goes right on out to the audience, you know?
Billy Eckstine
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art.
Charlie Parker
The only very rugged part of the route is in crossing the Big Horn mountain, which is about 30 miles wide.
William Henry Ashley
That's the thing that we said about the horn before: it's a focus issue. It's like a singer versus a drummer. If a drummer's playing a drum beat, and a singer starts singing, what do you think the audience is going to do?
Charlie Hunter
I always felt as a horn player, a jam session wasn't satisfying enough for me. I should have been a rhythm section player, actually.
Lee Konitz
I had the Big Horn river explored from Wind River mountain to my place of embarkation.
William Henry Ashley
If you've only got one horn playing, I still want the sense of ensemble.
Gerry Mulligan
As a horn player, the greatest compliment one can get is when a person comes to you and says, 'I heard this saxophone on the radio the other day and I knew it was you. I don't know the song, but I know it was you on sax.'
Clarence Clemons
Then I took 8 years of French Horn, first jazz, and then classical.
Jim Coleman
I learned, too, how it was possible with the help of the picture and action to transform an apparently insignificant violin passage into an incident, and to lift a simple horn call into a thing of stupendous significance by means of scenic emphasis.
Anton Seidl
So it's really hard for a horn player to comp. But I'm totally into trying to switch those paradigms around and find a little magic space where that works, and try to mine that.
Charlie Hunter
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Horn Translations
horn in Danish is signalhorn, horn
horn in Dutch is hoorn
horn in French is corne, avertisseur
horn in German is Horn
Horn in Hungarian is Horn-fok
horn in Italian is cornetta
horn in Latin is cornu
horn in Norwegian is horn
horn in Portuguese is chifre
horn in Spanish is cuerno, trompa
horn in Swedish is horn, lur
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