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Word Meanings - DEHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .

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  • DEHORN
    To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. "Dehorning cattle." Farm Journal .
  • AFTERCAST
    A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
  • DEPRIVEMENT
    Deprivation.
  • PREVENTATIVE
    That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
  • AFTER
    To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • AFTERPAINS
    The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
  • STARTLINGLY
    In a startling manner.
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • HORNSTONE
    A siliceous stone, a variety of quartz, closely resembling flint, but more brittle; -- called also chert.
  • PREVENTABLE
    Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
  • PREVENTINGLY
    So as to prevent or hinder.
  • BURNIEBEE
    The ladybird.
  • STARTFULNESS
    Aptness to start.
  • AFTERSHAFT
    The hypoptilum.
  • AFTERPIECE
    The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
  • PREVENT
    1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
  • DISHORN
    To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle. "Dishorn the spirit." Shak.
  • JOURNALIST
    1. One who keeps a journal or diary. Mickle. 2. The conductor of a public journal, or one whose business it to write for a public journal; an editorial or other professional writer for a periodical. Addison.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • IMPREVENTABLE
    Not preventable; invitable.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • THORNSET
    Set with thorns. Dyer.
  • SUNBURN
    To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
  • GAS-BURNER
    The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
  • AUBURN
    1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
  • IMPREVENTABILITY
    The state or quality of being impreventable.
  • MISGROWTH
    Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.

 

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