horn - English dictionary definition

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Horn A hard, projecting, and usually pointed organ, growing upon the heads of certain animals, esp. of the ruminants, as cattle, goats, and the like. The hollow horns of the Ox family consist externally of true horn, and are never shed.
Horn The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
Horn Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: (a) A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. (c) A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. (d) A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.
Horn An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
Horn Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
Horn A wind instrument of music; originally, one made of a horn (of an ox or a ram); now applied to various elaborately wrought instruments of brass or other metal, resembling a horn in shape.
Horn A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
Horn The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
Horn A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
Horn The pointed beak of an anvil.

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