horn

• And he guessed the horn was the upright thing at the front end of the saddle. —  Echo Burning by Lee Child
• The well-organised poaching gangs were using automatic weapons and taking advantage of legal loopholes in order to trade the animal's horn, which is prized as a potency agent in Asian countries. —  The Earth Times Online Newspaper
• Rhino horn was also used in cups designed to detect the presence of poisons in liquids-because many poisons used historically were highly alkaline, a reaction might occur with the keratin that the horn is made of and alerted the drinker of nefarious intent. via: Discovery News —  TreeHugger
• They may be complicated at any time by hemorrhage, inflammation of the laminć, suppuration, gangrene of the lateral cartilage and of the extensor tendon, caries of the coffin bone, or the growth of a horny tumor known as a keraphyllocele Causes._--Relative dryness of the horn is the principal predisposing cause of sand cracks. —  Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
• Rattling into quiet little towns with a grand 'tootle-te-too' of the horn was an especial delight, and to see the people gather so quickly that they seemed to spring from the ground. —  Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag

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