Definition of Dehorning

1. Verb. (present participle of dehorn) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Dehorning

1. dehorn [v] - See also: dehorn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dehorning

dehisces
dehiscing
dehistoricization
dehistoricize
dehistoricized
dehistoricizes
dehistoricizing
dehonestation
dehook
dehooked
dehooking
dehorn
dehorned
dehorner
dehorners
dehorning (current term)
dehorns
dehors
dehort
dehortatio
dehortation
dehortative
dehortatory
dehorted
dehorter
dehorters
dehorting
dehorts
dehubbing
dehull

Literary usage of Dehorning

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

1. The Diseases of Animals: A Book of Brief and Popular Advice on the Care and by Nelson Slater Mayo (1920)
"dehorning dehorning consists in the removal of the horns by some surgical method, or by the application to the budding horns of calves of some substance ..."

2. The Principles of Fruit-growing, with Applications to Practice by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"dehorning." Pruning is one of the legitimate means of renewing neglected orchards; but aside from this, it is often advised that very old and weak trees be ..."

3. The Successful Stockman and Manual of Husbandry by Andrew A. Gardenier (1901)
"dehorning CATTLE BY USE OF CHEMICALS. The Farm Superintendent, LH Adams, ... From our experience it would seem that the dehorning compound should be fresh ..."

4. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1892)
"Now, to sum up the advantages to be achieved, I may say : First, dehorning cattle would insure a lease of life to at least two hundred people annually in ..."

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