a. Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage;
The horned moon with one bright star
Within the nether tip. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]
Horned bee (Zool.),
Horned dace (Zool.),
Horned frog (Zool.),
Horned grebe (Zool.),
Horned horse (Zool.),
Horned lark (Zool.),
Horned lizard (Zool.),
Horned owl (Zool.),
Horned poppy. (Bot.)
Horned pout (Zool.),
Horned rattler (Zool.),
Horned ray (Zool.),
Horned screamer (Zool.),
Horned snake (Zool.),
Horned toad (Zool.),
Horned viper. (Zool.)
n. The condition of being horned. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) The European sand eel. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A genus of Devonian fossil plants considered one of the earliest forms of vascular land plants; it is similar to genus
n.
n. [ AS. hyrnet; akin to OHG. hornaz, hornuz, G. horniss; perh. akin to E. horn, and named from the sound it makes as if blowing the horn; but more prob. akin to D. horzel, Lith. szirszone, L. crabo. ] (Zool.) A large, strong wasp. The European species (Vespa crabro) is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American white-faced hornet (Vespa maculata) is larger and has similar habits. [ 1913 Webster ]
Hornet fly (Zool.),
To stir up a hornet's nest,