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the horn

1. slang The telephone. After our dreadful meal that night, I got on the horn to the manager the very next morning to complain. The boss said not to disturb her. Apparently, she's on the horn to our most important client.

2. vulgar slang An erection. Primarily heard in UK. Sarah became quite embarrassed when she noticed that her date had gotten the horn in the middle of the movie.

horn

1. n. the nose. He scratched his horn with his pencil and opened his mouth to speak.

2. n. the telephone. She’s on the horn now. What’ll I tell her?

3. tv. to sniff or snort a narcotic. (Drugs.) Ernie horned a line and paused for a minute.

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But Pacquiao, who controversially lost to Horn, is hardly interested.

Pacquiao says no to Horn rematch, blasts Aussie boxer's camp

A letter with over 30 signatures from conservation organizations was sent to Bonhams Global CEO Matthew Girling, calling on Bonhams auctioneers to permanently stop selling rhino horn. Bonhams did not respond to a request for a meeting with WildAid.

Bonhams Should Take Rhino Horn Off the Auction Block

James Naigus's Sonata for Horn and Piano is a sumptuous neo-romantic work in three movements.

Cruise Control. Steven Cohen

Usually, a cutaneous horn is several millimeters long, but they can grow to be quite large, upto 25 cm in some cases and 36 cm diameter in historic cases.

ANTERIOR ABDOMINAL WALL SEBACEOUS HORN--A RARE CASE

Horn cancer is a known malady of cattle with few reports in buffalo, presumably engendered by long hours in sun, irritation of ropes, painting of horn and even hereditary predisposition to light skin (Tyagi, 1993).

Diagnosis and Management of Horn Cancer in Buffaloes

Yeah, cried Horn, he would definitely grab a rematch against the unbeaten Crawford (33-0-24 KOs).

Who, dear brothers, needs a Crawford-Horn rematch?

Wrestling behaviour is the norm in antelope with increasingly complicated curved and spiralled horns. Note that while deer have branched horns, none of the African ungulates show this horn type.

Horn shape and fighting in African antelope

RAY: The relay closes and allows power to flow through to the horn itself, which sits in front of the radiator.

Sick horn could be one of three things

The skull has connected a large posterior nasofrontal horn boss and a smaller frontal horn boss, indicating an intermediate stage to the single frontal horn of Elasmotherium.

One-horned rhino Elasmotherium 'source of unicorn legend'

Clarton Horn has a manufacturing plant in La Carolina, Spain.

UNO MINDA acquires Spain's Clarton Horn

Unlike the use of the shofar today, the horn in biblical times had several purposes--ritual (used in conjunction with holidays or worship), signal (used to send a message to the people or army) and musical (used to accompany singing or as a solo instrument).

The translation of the biblical word shofar

Animal horn is made up of layers of keratin, the same basic stuff that our hair and nails are made of.

Historical horn of plenty

If the fuse is good, jump power directly to the horn with a homemade fused jumper (top photo).