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horn
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[ noun ] a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it
Used in print (Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)Cardboard noisemakers , substitutes for the unavailable tin models , were being hawked and bought at makeshift stands every few yards along Broadway , and one 's ears were continually serenaded by the horns ' rasps and bleats . (Hampton Stone, The Man Who Looked Death...)He had retained his hat and his horn , and , whatever fun might still be going , he was ready to join it . You have your paper horn clutched in your big , craggy fist , and for your entrance you have planned a noisy , colorful and exuberant greeting to your friends and tenants . Can you imagine yourself forgetting under_the_circumstances that you are approaching this startling and unexpected situation so unsuitably hatted and armed with a paper horn ? Even then , as you go_into the house oppressed by the knowledge that something_is_cooking and that your house has passed under this unaccountable , official control , could you go_on forgetting that you still had that ridiculous hat on your head and you were still carrying that childish horn in your hand ? Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates
Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)`` Since 1692 a great but superficial change has wiped_out God 's beard and the Devil 's horns , but the world is still gripped between two diametrically opposed absolutes . (Sallie Bingham, "Moving Day," The Atlantic...)Still , he could n't help thinking , we 're all getting old , getting small ; the snail is pulling_in her horns . |
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[ noun ] a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;
Used in print (Ralph J. Salisbury, "On the Old Santa Fe Trail...)Suddenly a treble auto horn tootley-toot-tootled , and , thumbing hopefully , I saw emergent in windshield flash : red lips , streaming silk of blonde hair and - ah , trembling confusion of hope , apprehension , despair - the leering face of old Herry . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (music) a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves
Used in print (Edward Jablonski, Harold Arlen Happy with the Blues....)Thoroughly modern in treatment , they are at_the_same_time , full of simple sincerity which invariably characterizes genuine Negro folk-music and are by_no_means to be confused with the average ' Broadway Spirituals ' which depend for their racial flavor upon sundry allusions to the ' Amen_Corner ' , ' judgement_day ' , ' Gabriel 's horn ' , and a frustrated devil - with a_few random ' Hallelujahs ' thrown_in for_good_measure . |
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[ noun ] (zoology) any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Fuzzy caterpillars , snails with their sensitive horns , struggling grasshoppers held by their long hind_legs and commanded to `` spit tobacco , spit '' . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)
Synonyms Used in print (Peter Field, Rattlesnake Ridge....)Swinging up then , and bending forward over the horn , he urged his mount down the meandering draw . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (zoology) the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails
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[ noun ] (music) a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves
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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 581
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[ noun ] a device on an automobile for making a warning noise
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