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adorn
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v 1: make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.;
"Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for
the special day" [syn: decorate, adorn, grace,
ornament, embellish, beautify]
2: be beautiful to look at; "Flowers adorned the tables
everywhere" [syn: deck, adorn, decorate, grace,
embellish, beautify]
3: furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors [syn:
invest, clothe, adorn]
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bighorn
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n 1: a river that flows from central Wyoming to the Yellowstone
River in southern Montana [syn: Bighorn, Bighorn River]
2: wild sheep of mountainous regions of western North America
having massive curled horns [syn: bighorn, bighorn sheep,
cimarron, Rocky Mountain bighorn, Rocky Mountain sheep,
Ovis canadensis]
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born
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adj 1: brought into existence; "he was a child born of adultery"
[ant: unborn]
2: being talented through inherited qualities; "a natural
leader"; "a born musician"; "an innate talent" [syn:
natural, born(p), innate(p)]
n 1: British nuclear physicist (born in Germany) honored for his
contributions to quantum mechanics (1882-1970) [syn:
Born, Max Born]
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bullhorn
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n 1: a portable loudspeaker with built-in microphone and
amplifier [syn: bullhorn, loud hailer, loud-hailer]
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corn
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n 1: tall annual cereal grass bearing kernels on large ears:
widely cultivated in America in many varieties; the
principal cereal in Mexico and Central and South America
since pre-Columbian times [syn: corn, maize, Indian
corn, Zea mays]
2: the dried grains or kernels or corn used as animal feed or
ground for meal
3: ears of corn that can be prepared and served for human food
[syn: corn, edible corn]
4: a hard thickening of the skin (especially on the top or sides
of the toes) caused by the pressure of ill-fitting shoes
[syn: corn, clavus]
5: (Great Britain) any of various cereal plants (especially the
dominant crop of the region--wheat in Great Britain or oats
in Scotland and Ireland)
6: whiskey distilled from a mash of not less than 80 percent
corn [syn: corn whiskey, corn whisky, corn]
7: something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"
v 1: feed (cattle) with corn
2: preserve with salt; "corned beef"
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dehorn
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v 1: prevent the growth of horns of certain animals
2: take the horns off (an animal)
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flugelhorn
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n 1: a brass instrument resembling a cornet but with a wider
bore [syn: flugelhorn, fluegelhorn]
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foghorn
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n 1: a loud low warning signal that can be heard by fogbound
ships [syn: foghorn, fogsignal]
2: a warning device consisting of a horn that generates a loud
low tone
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greenhorn
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n 1: an awkward and inexperienced youth [syn: cub,
greenhorn, rookie]
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leghorn
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n 1: a stiff hat made of straw with a flat crown [syn: boater,
leghorn, Panama, Panama hat, sailor, skimmer,
straw hat]
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longhorn
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n 1: long-horned beef cattle formerly common in southwestern
United States [syn: longhorn, Texas longhorn]
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pronghorn
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n 1: fleet antelope-like ruminant of western North American
plains with small branched horns [syn: pronghorn,
prongbuck, pronghorn antelope, American antelope,
Antilocapra americana]
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saxhorn
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n 1: any of a family of brass wind instruments that resemble a
bugle with valves
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shoehorn
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n 1: a device used for easing the foot into a shoe
v 1: fit for a specific purpose even when not well suited
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shorthorn
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n 1: English breed of short-horned cattle [syn: Durham,
shorthorn]
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stinkhorn
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n 1: any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order
Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts
insects that carry the spores away on their feet" [syn:
stinkhorn, carrion fungus]
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matterhorn
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n 1: a mountain in the Alps on the border between Switzerland
and Italy (14,780 feet high); noted for its distinctive
shape
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alphorn
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althorn
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borne
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inkhorn
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tinhorn
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whitehorn
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