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- English Word Hordein Definition A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
- English Word Hordeolum Definition A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
- English Word Hordock Definition An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhaps equivalent to burdock.
- English Word Hore Definition Hoar.
- English Word Horehound Definition A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coughing, etc.
- English Word Horizon Definition The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.
- English Word Horizon Definition A plane passing through the eye of the spectator and at right angles to the vertical at a given place; a plane tangent to the earth's surface at that place; called distinctively the sensible horizon.
- English Word Horizon Definition A plane parallel to the sensible horizon of a place, and passing through the earth's center; -- called also rational / celestial horizon.
- English Word Horizon Definition The unbroken line separating sky and water, as seen by an eye at a given elevation, no land being visible.
- English Word Horizon Definition The epoch or time during which a deposit was made.
- English Word Horizon Definition The chief horizontal line in a picture of any sort, which determines in the picture the height of the eye of the spectator; in an extended landscape, the representation of the natural horizon corresponds with this line.
- English Word Horizontal Definition Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.
- English Word Horizontal Definition Parallel to the horizon; on a level; as, a horizontalline or surface.
- English Word Horizontal Definition Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; as, horizontal distance.
- English Word Horizontality Definition The state or quality of being horizontal.
- English Word Horizontally Definition In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.
- English Word Hormogonium Definition A chain of small cells in certain algae, by which the plant is propogated.
- English Word Horn Definition 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.
- English Word Horn Definition The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.
- English Word Horn Definition 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.
- English Word Horn Definition An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias).
- English Word Horn Definition Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn
- English Word Horn Definition 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.
- English Word Horn Definition A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle.
- English Word Horn Definition The cornucopia, or horn of plenty.
- English Word Horn Definition A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.
- English Word Horn Definition The pointed beak of an anvil.
- English Word Horn Definition The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg.
- English Word Horn Definition The Ionic volute.
- English Word Horn Definition The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.