horn vs primal

horn

noun
  • A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired. 

  • An object whose shape resembles a horn, such as cornucopia, the point of an anvil, or a vessel for gunpowder or liquid. 

  • An antler. 

  • The outer end of a crosstree; also, one of the projections forming the jaws of a gaff, boom, etc. 

  • A curved projection on the fore part of a plane. 

  • The high pommel of a saddle; also, either of the projections on a lady's saddle for supporting the leg. 

  • A sound signaling the expiration of time. 

  • A conical device used to direct waves. 

  • An erection of the penis. 

  • Any similar real or imaginary growth or projection such as the elongated tusk of a narwhal, the eyestalk of a snail, the pointed growth on the nose of a rhinoceros, or the hornlike projection on the head of a demon or similar. 

  • An instrument resembling a musical horn and used to signal others. 

  • A diacritical mark that may be attached to the top right corner of the letters o and u when writing in Vietnamese, thus forming ơ and ư. 

  • In naval mine warfare, a projection from the mine shell of some contact mines which, when broken or bent by contact, causes the mine to fire. 

  • A telephone. 

  • One of the projections at the four corners of the Jewish altar of burnt offering. 

  • Generally, any brass wind instrument. 

  • An incurved, tapering and pointed appendage found in the flowers of the milkweed (Asclepias). 

  • The hard substance from which animals' horns are made, sometimes used by man as a material for making various objects. 

  • A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle. 

  • Any of several musical wind instruments. 

  • The Ionic volute. 

  • A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land. 

verb
  • To assault with the horns. 

  • To furnish with horns. 

primal

noun
  • A primal cut (of meat). 

verb
  • To take part in primal therapy. 

adj
  • Being the first in time or in history. 

  • Of greatest importance; primary. 

  • Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts. 

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