horn

Noun

• a device on an automobile for making a warning noise

• a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

• an alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

• a device having the shape of a horn
  • horns at the ends of a new moon
    
  • the hornof an anvil
    
  • the cleat had two horns
    

• the material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

• any hard protuberance from the head of an organism that is similar to or suggestive of a horn

• a brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

• a high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

• a noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

• one of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

• a noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

Verb

• stab or pierce with a horn or tusk
  • the rhino horned the explorer
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  automobile horn , car horn , motor horn , hooter , French horn , cornet , trumpet , trump , saddle horn , tusk