dishorn

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English

Etymology

dis- +‎ horn

Verb

dishorn (third-person singular simple present dishorns, present participle dishorning, simple past and past participle dishorned)

  1. (transitive) To deprive of horns.
    to dishorn cattle
    • Shakespeare
      Dishorn the spirit.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for dishorn”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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