Shoeing-horn

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• Shoeing

  ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of <<Shoe>>. ...

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• Horn

  ·noun The Ionic volute. II. Horn ·noun The cornucopia, or horn of plenty. III. Horn ·noun A curved...

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• Horn

  Trumpets were at first horns perforated at the tip, used for various purposes (Josh. 6:4, 5). Flask...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• horn

  A horn; a glass of liquor. The chaplain gave us a pretty stiff horn of liquor a-piece--and first-ra...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• horn

  The arm of a cleat or kevel. ...

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• Horn

  The word "horn" is often used metaphorically to signify strength and honor, because horns are the ch...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bass horn

  ·- A modification of the bassoon, much deeper in tone. ...

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• Basset horn

  ·add. ·- The corno di bassetto. II. Basset horn ·adj An instrument blown with a reed, and resemblin...

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• Buck's-horn

  ·noun A plant with leaves branched somewhat like a buck's horn (Plantago Coronopus); also, Lobelia c...

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• Bugle horn

  ·- A <<Bugle>>. II. Bugle horn ·- A drinking vessel made of horn. ...

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• Gems-horn

  ·noun An organ stop with conical tin pipes. ...

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• Horn-mad

  ·adj Quite mad; — raving crazy. ...

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• Morsing horn

  ·- A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming. ...

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• Slug-horn

  ·adj An erroneous form of the Scotch word slughorne, or sloggorne, meaning slogan. ...

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• The Hartes Horn

  See Harts Horn Court, Basing Lane. ...

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• Horn Alley

  1) South out of Holborn Hill, near Holborn Bridge, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype...

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• Horn Court

  East out of Beer Lane. In Tower Ward (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). Other name : "Horn Alley" (Stryp...

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• Horn Tavern

  1) On the north side of Fleet Street, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746). Given in 1405 to t...

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• Horn Yard

  South out of Cloth Fair, in Farringdon Ward Without (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799). "Horne Yard" in Roc...

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• horn colic

  A temporary priapism. ...

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• horn fair

  An annual fair held at Charlton, in Kent, on St. Luke's day, the 18th of October. It consists of a r...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• horn mad

  A person extremely jealous of his wife, is said to be horn mad. Also a cuckold, who does not cut or ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• horn work

  Cuckold-making. ...

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• horn-ray

  n. a New Zealand and Australian Ray, the fish Rhinobatus banksii, Mull and Heule.In this genus of R...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• green-horn

  A lubberly, uninitiated fellow. A novice of marked gullibility. ...

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• horn-card

  Transparent graduated horn-plates to use on charts, either as protractors or for meteorological purp...

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• horn-fisc

  Anglo-Saxon for the sword-fish. ...

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• horn-fisted

  Having hands inured to hauling ropes. ...

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• horn-keck

  An old term for the green-back fish. ...

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• horn-work

  In fortification, a form of outwork having for its head a bastioned front, and for its sides two lon...

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• rudder-horn

  A kind of iron crutch bolted to the back of the rudder, for attaching the rudder chains to in case o...

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• Stag-horn coral

  ·- ·Alt. of Stag-horn fern. ...

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• Stag-horn fern

  ·- ·see under <<Stag>>. ...

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• French Horn Yard

  South out of Crutched Friars, between Nos. 25 and 26 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward. First menti...

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• Harts Horn Court

  South out of Basing Lane in Bread Street and Cordwainer Wards (O. and M. 1677-Boyle, 1799). Other n...

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• Harts Horn Inn

  On the east side of Pye Corner, West Smithfield, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ...

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• (John) Horn, Ward of

  See Bridge Ward Within. ...

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• Horn Alley, Basing Lane

  See Harts Horn Court. ...

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• Horn Alley, Beer Lane

  See Horn Court. ...

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• Horn Court, Basing Lane

  See Harts Horn Court. ...

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• Horn Yard, Goodman's Yard

  See Enoch Court. ...

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• Ward of John Horn

  Identified with Bridge Ward Within (q.v.). ...

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• break one's horn-book

  to incur displeasure. South. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• little end of the horn

  'To come out at the little end of the horn,' is said when a ridiculously small effect has been produ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.