See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

HORN (a See also:

• COMMON

common See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic word, cognate with See also:

• LAT

Lat. See also:

• CORNU, MARIE

cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)  . The weapons which project from the heads of various See also:

• SPECIES

species of animals, constituting what are known as horns, embrace substances which are, in their anatomical structure and chemical See also:

• COMPOSITION
• COMPOSITION (Lat. compositio, from componere, to put together)

composition, quite distinct from each other; and although in See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce also they are known indiscriminately as See also:

• HORN
• HORN (a common Teutonic word, cognate with Lat. cornu; cf. Gr. Kipas)
• HORN (Lat. cornu; corresponding terms being Fr. cor, trompe; Ger. Horn; Ital. corno)
• HORN, ARVID BERNHARD, COUNT (1664-1742)
• HORN, PHILIP DE MONTMORENCY, COUNT

horn, their uses are altogether dissimilar . These See also:

• DIFFERENCES, CALCULUS OF (Theory of Finite Differences)

differences in structure and properties were thus indicated by See also:

• SIR

Sir R . See also:

• OWEN, JOHN (1616-1683)
• OWEN, JOHN [OVENUS Or AUDOENUS] (c. 1560-1622)
• OWEN, ROBERT (1771-1858)
• OWEN, SIR HUGH (1804-1881)
• OWEN, SIR RICHARD (1804–1892)

Owen:—" The weapons to which the See also:

• TERM

term horn is properly or technically applied consist of very different substances, and belong to two organic systems, as distinct from each other as both are from the See also:

• TEETH (O.E. Eel); plural of tooth, O.E. top)

teeth . Thus the horns of See also:

• DEER (O. E. rigor, dfor, a common Teutonic word, meaning a wild animal, cf. Ger. Tier, Du. dier, &c., probably from a root dhus-, to breathe)
• DEER, CHINESE

deer consist of See also:

• BONE (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages, in many of which it is confined to the shank of the leg, as in the German Bein)
• BONE, HENRY (1755-1834)

bone, and are processes of the frontal bone; those of the See also:

• GIRAFFE

giraffe are See also:

• INDEPENDENT

independent bones or ` epiphyses' covered by hairy skin; those of oxen, See also:

• SHEEP
• SHEEP (from the Anglo-Saxon sceap, a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages; e.g. the German Schaf)

sheep and antelopes are ` apophyses' of the frontal bone, covered by the corium and by a sheath of true horny material; those of the prong-horned See also:

• ANTELOPE

antelope consist at their basis of bony processes covered by hairy skin, and are covered by horny sheaths in the See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of their extent . They thus combine the See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character of those of the giraffe and See also:

• ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ordinary antelope, together with the See also:

• EXPANDED

expanded and branched See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of the antlers of deer . Only the horns of the See also:

• RHINOCEROS

rhinoceros are composed wholly of horny See also:

• MATTER

matter, and this is disposed in See also:

• LONGITUDINAL

longitudinal See also:

• FIBRES
• FIBRES (or FIBERS, in American spelling; from Lat. fibra, apparently connected either with filum, thread, or findere, to split)

fibres, so that the horns seem rather to consist of coarse bristles compactly matted together in the form of a more or less elongated sub-compressed See also:

• CONE (Gr. Kwvos)

cone." True horny matter is really a modified form of epidermic See also:

• TISSUE (Fr. tissu, tissue, participle of tisser, Lat. texere, to weave)

tissue, and consists of the albuminoid " keratin." It forms, not only the horns of the ox tribe, but also the hoofs, claws or nails of animals generally, the See also:

• CARAPACE (a Fr. word, from the Span. carapacho, a shield or armour)

carapace of the tortoises and the armadilloes, the scales of the See also:

• PANGOLIN

pangolin, See also:

• PORCUPINE (Fr., pore-epic, " spiny pig ")

porcupine quills, and birds' feathers, &c . Horn is employed in the manufacture of combs, buttons, the handles of walking-sticks, umbrellas, and knives, drinking-cups, spoons of various kinds, See also:

• SNUFF (from " to snuff, " i.e. to inhale, to draw in through the nose; cf. Dutch snuf, scent, Ger. Schnupfen, a cold, catarrh, and Eng. " snuffle, " " sniff, " &c.)

snuff-boxes, &c . In former times it was applied to several uses for which it is no longer required, although such applications have See also:

• LEFT

left their traces in the See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language . Thus the musical See also:

• INSTRUMENTS

instruments and See also:

• FOG

fog signals known as horns indicate their descent from earlier and simpler forms of apparatus made from horn . In the same way See also:

• POWDER (through O. Fr. puldre, modern poudre, from Lat. pulvis, pulveris, dust)

powder-horns were spoken of See also:

• LONG, GEORGE (1800-1879)
• LONG, JOHN DAVIS (1838– )

long after they ceased to be made of that substance; to a small extent lanterns still continue to be " glazed " with thin trans-See also:

• PARENT, SIMON NAPOLEON (1855– )

parent plates of horn .