Part 5386

<h1>Horizontal</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hor`i*zon"tal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>horizontal</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Pertaining to, or near, the horizon.</def> "<i>Horizontal</i> misty air."

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Parallel to the horizon; on a level; <as>as, a <ex>horizontal</ex>line or surface</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Measured or contained in a plane of the horizon; <as>as, <ex>horizontal</ex> distance</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Horizontal drill</col>, <cd>a drilling machine having a horizontal drill spindle.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal engine</col>, <cd>one the piston of which works horizontally.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal fire</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>the fire of ordnance and small arms at point-blank range or at low angles of elevation.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal force</col> <fld>(Physics)</fld>, <cd>the horizontal component of the earth's magnetic force.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal line</col> <fld>(Descriptive Geometry & Drawing)</fld>, <cd>a constructive line, either drawn or imagined, which passes through the point of sight, and is the chief line in the projection upon which all verticals are fixed, and upon which all vanishing points are found.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal parallax</col>. <cd>See under <er>Parallax</er>.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal plane</col> <fld>(Descriptive Geometry)</fld>, <cd>a plane parallel to the horizon, upon which it is assumed that objects are projected. See <er>Projection</er>. It is upon the horizontal plane that the ground plan of the buildings is supposed to be drawn.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal projection</col>, <cd>a projection made on a plane parallel to the horizon.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal range</col> <fld>(Gunnery)</fld>, <cd>the distance in a horizontal plane to which a gun will throw a projectile.</cd> -- <col>Horizontal water wheel</col>, <cd>a water wheel in which the axis is vertical, the buckets or floats revolving in a horizontal plane, as in most turbines.</cd></cs>

<h1>Horizontality</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hor`i*zon*tal"i*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>horizontalit\'82</ets>.]</ety> <def>The state or quality of being horizontal.</def>

<i>Kirwan.</i>

<h1>Horizontally</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hor`i*zon"tal*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; <as>as, moving <ex>horizontally</ex></as>.</def>

<h1>Hormogonium</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Hor`mo*go*ni"um</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/a chain + <?/ generation.]</ety> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>A chain of small cells in certain alg\'91, by which the plant is propogated.</def>

<h1>Horn</h1> <Xpage=705>

<hw>Horn</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>horn</ets>; akin to D. <ets>horen</ets>, <ets>hoorn</ets>, G., Icel., Sw., & Dan. <ets>horn</ets>, Goth. <ets>ha\'a3rn</ets>, W., Gael., & Ir. <ets>corn</ets>, L. <ets>cornu</ets>, Gr. <?/, and perh. also to E. <ets>cheer</ets>, <ets>cranium</ets>, <ets>cerebral</ets>; cf. Skr. <ets>\'87iras</ets> head. Cf. <er>Carat</er>, <er>Corn</er> on the foot, <er>Cornea</er>, <er>Corner</er>, <er>Cornet</er>, <er>Cornucopia</er>, <er>Hart</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form; esp.: <sd>(a)</sd> A projection from the beak of a bird, as in the hornbill. <sd>(b)</sd> A tuft of feathers on the head of a bird, as in the horned owl. <sd>(c)</sd> A hornlike projection from the head or thorax of an insect, or the head of a reptile, or fish. <sd>(d)</sd> A sharp spine in front of the fins of a fish, as in the horned pout.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Bot.)</fld> <def>An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (<spn>Asclepias</spn>).</def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>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</def>. "Wind his <i>horn</i> under the castle wall." <i>Spenser</i>. See <cref>French horn</cref>, under <er>French</er>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>A drinking cup, or beaker, as having been originally made of the horns of cattle</def>. "<i>Horns</i> of mead and ale." <i>Mason</i>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>The cornucopia, or horn of plenty</def>. See <er>Cornucopia</er>. "Fruits and flowers from Amalth\'91a's <i>horn</i>." <i>Milton</i>. <sd>(d)</sd> <def>A vessel made of a horn; esp., one designed for containing powder; anciently, a small vessel for carrying liquids.</def> "Samuel took the <i>horn</i>of oil and anointed him [David]." <i>1 Sam. xvi. 13</i>. <sd>(e)</sd> <def>The pointed beak of an anvil</def>. <sd>(f)</sd> <def>The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg</def>. <sd>(g)</sd> <fld>(Arch.)</fld> <def>The Ionic volute</def>. <sd>(h)</sd> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc.</def> <sd>(i)</sd> <fld>(Carp.)</fld> <def>A curved projection on the fore part of a plane</def>. <sd>(j)</sd> <def>One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering.</def> "Joab . . . caught hold on the <i>horns</i> of the altar." <i>1 Kings ii. 28</i>.

<p><b>6.</b> <def>One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.</def>

<blockquote>The moon Wears a wan circle round her blunted <b>horns</b>. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.</def>

<blockquote>Sharpening in mooned <b>horns</b> Their phalanx. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; <as>as, a spoon of <ex>horn</ex></as>.</def>

<p><b>9.</b> <fld>(Script.)</fld> <def>A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.</def>

<blockquote>The Lord is . . . the <b>horn</b> of my salvation. <i>Ps. xviii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>An emblem of a cuckold; -- used chiefly in the plural.</def> "Thicker than a cuckold's <i>horn</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>