Horn vs. Thorn — What's the Difference?

A hard permanent outgrowth, often curved and pointed, found in pairs on the heads of cattle, sheep, goats, giraffes, etc. and consisting of a core of bone encased in keratinized skin.

A modified branch in the form of a sharp woody structure.

The substance of which horns are composed

Any of various other sharp protuberances, such as a spine.

A horn-shaped projection or object.

Any of various shrubs, trees, or woody plants bearing such sharp structures.

A wind instrument, conical in shape or wound into a spiral, originally made from an animal horn (now typically brass) and played by lip vibration.

Any of various sharp protuberances on an animal.

A device sounding a warning or other signal

One that causes sharp pain, irritation, or discomfort

(of an animal) butt or gore with the horns

The runic letter þ, used in Old English, Middle English, and Old Norse manuscripts to represent both the voiceless sound (th) of Modern English thin and the voiced sound (th) of Modern English this, and in modern Icelandic orthography to represent the voiceless sound (th).

Be unfaithful to (one's husband or wife)

(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.

One of the hard, usually permanent structures projecting from the head of certain mammals, such as cattle, sheep, goats, or antelopes, consisting of a bony core covered with a sheath of keratinous material.

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

A hard protuberance, such as an antler or projection on the head of a giraffe or rhinoceros, that is similar to or suggestive of a horn.

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

The hard smooth keratinous material forming the outer covering of the horns of cattle or related animals.

A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed from the futhark; today used only in Icelandic to represent the voiceless dental fricative, but originally used in several early Germanic scripts, including Old English where it represented the dental fricatives that are today written th (Old English did not have phonemic voicing distinctions for fricatives).

A natural or synthetic substance resembling this material.

To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn (sharp pointed object).

A container, such as a powder horn, made from a horn.

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

A horn of plenty; a cornucopia.

Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

Either of the ends of a new moon.

Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

The point of an anvil.

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter , capital form . It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.

The pommel of a saddle.

To prick, as with a thorn.

An ear trumpet.

Something that causes irritation and annoyance;

A device for projecting sound waves, as in a loudspeaker.

A sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf

A hollow, metallic electromagnetic transmission antenna with a circular or rectangular cross section.

A Germanic character of runic origin

A wind instrument made of an animal horn.

A brass instrument, such as a trombone or tuba.

A French horn.

A wind instrument, such as a trumpet or saxophone, used in a jazz band.

A usually electrical signaling device that produces a loud resonant sound:an automobile horn.

Any of various noisemakers operated by blowing or by squeezing a hollow rubber ball.

(Slang)A telephone.

To join without being invited; intrude. Used with in.

(countable) A hard growth of keratin that protrudes from the top of the head of certain animals, usually paired.

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 antler.

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

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

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

(architectural element) The Ionic volute.

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

(carpentry) A curved projection on the fore part of a plane.

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

(countable) Any of several musical wind instruments.

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

A loud alarm, especially one on a motor vehicle.

A sound signaling the expiration of time.

(countable) A conical device used to direct waves.

Generally, any brass wind instrument.

A telephone.

An erection of the penis.

A peninsula or crescent-shaped tract of land.

(countable) 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.

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

(military) 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.

To assault with the horns.

(transitive) To furnish with horns.

To cuckold.

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.

The antler of a deer, which is of bone throughout, and annually shed and renewed.

Any natural projection or excrescence from an animal, resembling or thought to resemble a horn in substance or form;

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

Something made of a horn, or in resemblance of a horn

One of the curved ends of a crescent; esp., an extremity or cusp of the moon when crescent-shaped.

The curving extremity of the wing of an army or of a squadron drawn up in a crescentlike form.

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, a spoon of horn.

A symbol of strength, power, glory, exaltation, or pride.

An emblem of a cuckold; - used chiefly in the plural.

The telephone; as, on the horn.

A body of water shaped like a horn; as, the Golden Horn in Istanbul.

To furnish with horns; to give the shape of a horn to.

To cause to wear horns; to cuckold.

A noisemaker (as at parties or games) that makes a loud noise when you blow through it

One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates

A noise made by the driver of an automobile to give warning;

A high pommel of a Western saddle (usually metal covered with leather)

A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves

Any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn

The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails

An alarm device that makes a loud warning sound

A brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves

A device on an automobile for making a warning noise

Stab or pierce with a horn or tusk;