Synonym: French horn, automobile horn, car horn, cornet, hooter, motor horn, saddle horn, trump, trumpet, tusk. Similar words: suborn, scorn, born of, morning, attorney, short, around the corner, shorts. Meaning: [hɔrn /hɔːn] n. 1. a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it 2. one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates 3. a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning; 4. a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather) 5. a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves 6. any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn 7. the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails 8. an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound 9. a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves 10. a device on an automobile for making a warning noise. v. stab or pierce with a horn or tusk.
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(121) When they earned enough money, they would book passage around the Horn to California.
(122) The helicopter warning horn then sounded advising that the main rotor blades were too slow.
(123) The column stalks are fine: indicators, lights and horn on the left, wipers on the right.
(124) My ideal here is Seifert, who is quite simply the best horn player in the world.
(125) The market place can be confusing but Trader Horn picks his way through the mire Going for the grand tour.
(126) Ranulf lifted the lantern horn and his blood ran cold as he glimpsed a gibbet standing there.
(127) Hinds' backing band, named after Fats Domino, counts eight musicians,(sentencedict.com) including a three-piece horn section.
(128) Prices were sky high, with rhino horn worth four times as much as ivory, and still rising.
(129) His technique for passing cars was to lay on the horn, swing out into the other lane, and persevere.
(130) The only problem which cured itself was a horn that tended to cut the engine during the early life of the car.
(131) Tears blurred her vision as she swung out, hammering on the horn.
(132) The Last To Know is the most exuberant track, helped by a vibrant horn section and a catchy melody.
(133) As a boy I had read a lot of sea stories and indulged in fancies of rounding the Horn in a windjammer.
(134) He had the most disgusting rotten teeth and horn rim glasses with milk bottle lenses.
(135) For the remainder of the evening,(sentencedict.com) Barbara and A. B. Everage honked their horn and flashed their lights.
(136) The fires signalled to something else as well ... Shortly before daybreak Tallis was woken by the distant sound of a hunting horn.
(137) He conducted the matter in his pyjamas, and wanted to shove Hauptmann Horn in the guardhouse for the night.
(138) To cut unnecessary duplication, Ford decided last year to reduce its horn choices to three.
(139) Martin Glimmer is the 50-something horn player on his last legs.
(140) Her left hand rests on her belly, while the right holds a bison horn marked with thirteen lines.
(141) Below mezzo-forte, 1 horn is sufficient to compete successfully with 1 trumpet or 1 trombone.
(142) He lay on the horn again; there was another, more violent bang.
(143) Rhino numbers have declined by 90 percent since the 1970s as a result of being hunted for their horn.
(144) As he rounded the tip of Cape Horn, a storm blew up from the west.
(145) The Strauss is Franz, father of Richard, and a celebrated horn player of his day.
(146) I could always get another horn out of hock and Esmonde stayed open to I.0 a.m.
(147) Van Horn finished his career as the top scorer in Utah history, averaging 20. 8 points.
(148) Or him who said he heard the horn, moaning softly like an alarm clock under an eiderdown?
(149) Octet featuring the limpid piano of Marc Laginha, Django Bates on tenor horn.
(150) We climbed up on to it; some one blew a horn and the beat started.