Unscramble horn

Definition of horn

noun:

• a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it.
• one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
• a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning.
• a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather). Synonyms: saddle horn.
• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves. Synonyms: cornet, trump, trumpet.
• any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.
• the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.
• a device having the shape of a horn; "horns at the ends of a new moon", "the hornof an anvil", "the cleat had two horns".
• an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound.
• a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves. Synonyms: French horn.
• a device on an automobile for making a warning noise. Synonyms: automobile horn, car horn, hooter, motor horn.

verb:

• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk; "the rhino horned the explorer". Synonyms: tusk.

Related words

antler, baleen, claxon, foghorn, klaxon, serpent, shofar, shophar, tortoiseshell, whalebone.

Words nearby

born, corn, horne, horny, morn, norn, porn, shorn, thorn, torn, worn.

Rhymes with

adorn, born, bourn, bourne, corn, firstborn, forewarn, forlorn, horne, lowborn, morn, mourn, porn, reborn, scorn, shorn, stillborn, sworn, thorn, torn.