These 12 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Hore, Horeb, Horehound.
in classical mytholoview-as the goddesses of the seasons, gy , divinities regarded in two points of and of the hours of the day. Their duty was to hold the gates of heaven, which they opened to send forth the chariot of the sun in the morning, and receive it again in the evening . brothers, who, according to tradition, in
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a mountain belonging to the membrane covering the bony core. The same ridge as Mount Sinai, where is still tip is very dense, and the layers of which it is composed are scarcely distinguishpointed out the rock from which water issued at the blow of Moses. able. This kind of horn appears to consist of coagulated albumen; and there is
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or HOARHOUND, in a regular connection between horns, botany, a plant so hoary as to be almost woolly; the leaves are broadly ovate and nails, claws, hoofs, scales, hair, feathers, and even skin. The horns of oxen are crenate; the whorls of flowers dense; the principal ones used for manufacturwild in Continental Europe, North Africa, Western and Southern Asia, etc. ing purposes; the horns of bulls and cows being preferred to those of bul- Black or stinking horehound is Ballota nigra, or the genus Ballota; wild horelocks, which are thin and of a coarse texture. The horns of goats and sheep hound, Eupatorium teucrifolium. The are whiter and more transparent than plant contains a bitter principle and a those of any other animals. volatile oil, used as a tonic, expectorant, In horn manufacture, the first process and alterative for coughs. necessary is to remove the core which is
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a name apforming bone ash, a substance valuable plied to Lake George by the novelist in making cupels for assaying purposes. Cooper. The Red Men called the lake They are also used in other ways-for making glue, stiffening for cloth dresses, Andialarocte. Jogues, the French misand for manure. The solid tip of the sionary pioneer, named it St. Sacrahorn, after being sawn off, is used for mente, because he discovered it the day making knife handles, umbrella handles, etc. After being divided into thin
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ARTIFICIAL, a shallow
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the visual circle of the firmament. The term "sensible," "vislaminæ, the remainder of the horn is used for various purposes. Hoofs and ible," or "physical" horizon is often horn cuttings are used for making prusused, though not quite accurately, for a siate of potash and prussian blue; and plane supposed to be extended from the the clippings of the combmaker are used observer's eye at right angles to a veras manure. An artificial horn is made tical line at the place and extending to from the gelatine obtained from bones the celestial vault. The horizon convenastronomical purposes, and by muriatic acid, and converting it into a horny substance by tanning. called the astronomical, or rational hori-
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CAPE grief so enraged Horatius that he is used with regard to the apparent age stabbed her. For this he was conof strata. Strata which appear, broadly demned to death, but his father and the speaking, contemporaneous or homotaxial people obtained his pardon. are said to be on the same horizon.
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HOORNE, or HORNES, PHILIP, COUNT VAN, a Flemish soldier and statesman; born in 1518; was the son of Joseph de Montmorency-Nivelle, and of Anne of Egmont, and stepson of John, Count van Horn, who constituted him and his brother his heirs on the condition of assuming his name. Philip gradually rose to be governor of Gueldres and Zütphen , admiral of the fleet, and councillor of state. He fought at St. Quentin in 1557, and at Gravelines in 1558, and 1559 accompanied Philip to Spain. On his return he joined the Prince of Orange and Egmont in resistance to Philip. On the arrival of Alva at Brussels he was arrested , in September, 1567, on a charge of high treason, and he and Egmont were beheaded in June, 1568. an
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CAPE, commonly spoken of as zon, is different from this. The spectathe extreme S. point of America, is a tor's eye is supposed to be, not at the steep, black, bare mountain headland of surface, but at the center of the earth, one of the small islands of the Fuegian with the planet transparent enough not to impede vision. In geology the term Archipelago. It was named Hoorn, anglicized Horn, "the Horn," when rounded in 1616 by the Dutch navigators, Lemaire and Schouten . It was sighted by Drake in 1578.
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a substance which may be dinearly finished he sent back his two vided into two distinct classes. First, companions, and as the bridge fell he the branched, bony horns of the stag plunged into the Tiber in full armor and genus, and the simple, laminated horns safely reached the opposite bank. of the ox genus, and other kindred genera. The first of these kinds of horn is
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an old style English primer. It consisted of a sheet of paper or vellum pasted on a panel of wood and covered with transparent horn to prevent wear. The wooden frame was provided usually with a handle and was held like a hand mirror. When not in use it was hung by a ring from the child's girdle. The contents of the horn-book designed to instruct the infant reader showed first of all a large cross; then followed the alphabet in large and small letters. The vowels were printed in a line by themselves. Their combinations with the consonants, as b a, ba; b e, be; b i, bi; were given in a tabular form. A safeguard against evil spirits ran "In the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the Holy Ghost." It was followed by the Lord's Prayer. Lastly came the Roman numerals. The writers of the Elizabethan Age, Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and others, allude to the horn-book. Though each child in a dame school formerly had a horn-book, specimens are now exceedingly rare and are among the choicest treasures of the museums.
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a peculiar bird of Africa and the Philippine region. There are several species. The bird is distinguished by an enormous bill resembling that of the toucan. The bill is surmounted in turn by a large horn or casque. The manner of growth may be comprehended by considering it a tuft of feathers changed into a horn. Despite its appearance the hornbill is said to be related to the kingfisher. It lives on fruit. The female nests in a tree after the manner of a woodpecker. When the hatching season arrives the male closes up the entrance to the nest with clay, leaving only a small aperture through which he passes in food to his mate. Paradise trogon. Hornbill. Hornbill and other climbing birds
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