adjective. Having a horn, horns, or a hornlike growth.

Furnished with a horn or horns, or something resembling a horn in its nature, use, position, or appearance: as, horned cattle; a horned lizard; the horned moon.

Specifically— In ornithology, having feathers on the head projecting like horns: as, the horned owl; a horned grebe.

In entomology, having one or more large horn-like projections. See cut under horn-bug

Mitered.

In heraldry, having horns: an epithet used when their tincture is different from that of the rest of the creature.

adjective. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; ; having some part shaped like a horn.

adjective. a British wild bee (Osmia bicornis), having two little horns on the head.

adjective. an American cyprinoid fish (Semotilus corporialis) common in brooks and ponds; the common chub. See Illust. of Chub.

adjective. a very large Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids.

adjective. a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head.

adjective. the gnu.

adjective. the shore lark.

adjective. the horned toad.

adjective. a large North American owl (Bubo Virginianus), having a pair of elongated tufts of feathers on the head. Several distinct varieties are known; as, the Arctic, Western, dusky, and striped horned owls, differing in color, and inhabiting different regions; -- called also great horned owl, horn owl, eagle owl, and cat owl. Sometimes also applied to the long-eared owl. See Eared owl, under Eared.

adjective. See Horn poppy, under Horn.

adjective. an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout.

adjective. a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder.

adjective. the sea devil.

adjective. the kamichi.

adjective. the cerastes.

adjective. any lizard of the genus Phrynosoma, of which nine or ten species are known. These lizards have several hornlike spines on the head, and a broad, flat body, covered with spiny scales. They inhabit the dry, sandy plains from California to Mexico and Texas. Called also horned lizard.

adjective. See Cerastes.

adjective. Having, or containing horns.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of horn.

adjective. having a horn or horns or hornlike parts or horns of a particular kind

"Other interpretations may be given: thus, Milton, Dryden, and others, speak of the "horned flood," i.e., a body of water which, when it meets with any obstruction, divides itself and becomes _horned_, as it were."

cuckold  cuckolded  horned beetle  horned syllogism  horned toad  

antler-like  antlered  bicorn  bicornate  bicorned  

adorned  forewarned  mourned  scorned  unadorned  

carnivorous  crested  eyeless  fearsome  fire-breathing  

Cynthian  S-shaped  acanthoid  acanthous  acicular  

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