Definition of Hornpipes

1. Noun. (plural of hornpipe) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hornpipes

1. hornpipe [n] - See also: hornpipe

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornpipes

hornitoes
hornitos
hornless
hornlessness
hornlessnesses
hornlet
hornlets
hornlike
hornotine
hornowl
hornowls
hornpike
hornpikes
hornpipe
hornpiped
hornpipes (current term)
hornpiping
hornpout
hornpouts
horns
horns of hyoid bone
horns of plenty
horns of saphenous opening
horns of thyroid cartilage
hornsnake
hornsnakes
hornstone
hornstones
hornswoggle
hornswoggled

Literary usage of Hornpipes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Essays on Chivalry, Romance, and the Drama by Walter Scott (1887)
"... funerals and hornpipes seldom match daintily together." The historical plays led naturally into another class, which may be be called Romantic Dramas, ..."

2. Curiosities of Literature: And The Literary Character Illustrated by Isaac Disraeli, Rufus Wilmot Griswold (1851)
"... of the Puritan of his day, 'singing psalms tu hornpipes.* As Puritans are the same hi all times, the Methodists io our own repealed the foolery, ..."

3. The Crusades by Edward Gibbon, Guillaume Caoursin, Johan Kaye, Walter Scott (1870)
"we mark them well," he concludes, " funerals and hornpipes seldom match daintily together." The historical plays led naturally into another class, ..."

4. American Journal of Education (1876)
"But I remember, uncle, hearing of Master Jacky being celebrated for the hornpipes he danced at Christmas: there was an old ..."

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