Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Of horn.

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  • adjective Made of or consisting of horn; full of horns.

Etymologies

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From Middle English hornen, hurnen, from Old English hyrnen ("made of horn; full of horns"), equivalent to horn +‎ -en. Cognate with Old High German hurnin, German hörnern ("hornen").

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Examples

  • * Epeidan gar teletais tisi kai manganeiais katedese daimona tis eis anthropon, kai emanteueto ekeinos, kai manteuomenos erhripteto, kai esparatteto, kai enenkein tou daimonos ten hornen ouk edunato all 'emelle diaspomenos houtos apollusthai, tois ta toiauta manganeuousi phesi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • Commether [Footnote: Come hither.] _Billy Chubb_, an breng tha hornen book.

    The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings

  • Nuremberg in 1557 constructed a tragedy, _Der hornen Sewfriedt_, on the story of Siegfried as he knew it from the _Hurnen Seyfrid_ and the

    The Nibelungenlied Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original George Henry Needler 1914

  • Gick där stundom en mö kring bordet och fyllde i hornen, slog hon ögonen ned och rodnade: bilden i skölden rodnade även som hon; det gladde de drickande kämpar.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Ed.] [13] Epeidan gar teletais tisi kai manganeiais katedese daimona tis eis anthropon, kai emanteueto ekeinos, kai manteuomenos erhripteto, kai esparatteto, kai enenkein tou daimonos ten hornen ouk edunato all 'emelle diaspomenos houtos apollusthai, tois ta toiauta manganeuousi phesi.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • ‘Silvern’ stood originally in Wiclif’s Bible (“_silverne_ housis to Diane”, Acts xix. 24); but already in the second recension of this was exchanged for ‘silver’; ‘hornen’, still in provincial use, he also employs, and ‘clayen’ (Job iv. 19) no less.

    English Past and Present Richard Chenevix Trench 1846

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