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Definition of Dishorn
1. v. t. To deprive of horns; as, to dishorn cattle.
Definition of Dishorn
1. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of horns. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dishorn
1. to deprive of horns [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dishorn
Literary usage of Dishorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"DOGE. Would'st thou repeat them ? Byro*. dishorn', va Da and horn. To strip of
horns. Well dishorn the spirit. And mock him home to Windsor. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1859)
"... :e our last of Loch»1 dishorn on Ireland.—On the east coast of Ireland Messrs.
Hoskyn, Aird, aid Yule have surveyed Dundalk bay and harbour, ..."
3. English Constitutional History from the Teutonic Conquest to the Present Time by Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead (1905)
"... but I am mortified to find that your Majesty thinks me capable of giving a
judgment which none but an ignorant or a dishorn^; man could give. ..."
4. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians ...by Charles Rollin by Charles Rollin (1815)
"The " death we may be induced to covet, instead of being the evasion of ал "
action, ought to be an action itself, * since nothing can be more dishorn ..."
5. A Treatise on the Law of Evidence by Simon Greenleaf (1899)
"In such cases, the creditors have maintained actions against the holder of the
fund : dishorn v. Denaby, 1 D'Anv. Abr. 64 ; Starkey v. ..."
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