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Definition of Hornful
1. Noun. (context: said of a drinking-cup or powder flask) The amount that a horn holds. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hornful
1. the capacity of a drinking horn [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hornful
Literary usage of Hornful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Folk-lore of the Musquakie Indians of North America and Catalogue of by Mary Alicia Owen (1904)
"He takes a hornful before he begins to pow-wow, or prophesy, dances, or rather,
whirls for a few seconds, goes into the sweat-lodge and pours another ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1848)
"... as we reminded the rea;!er at our outset on this ramble he hired himself as
poet- laureate to King Admetus, on a daily stipend of a hornful of milk. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"... or be more welcome to a visitor or stranger, than entertaining them with the
blood- warm raw steaks of a cow, and a hornful of maize or ..."
4. Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland by David Wilkins, William Stubbs (1869)
"He has a dish of meat, as provision from the palace, and a hornful of mead. V.
And he has a horse, always in attendance, from the King. VI. ..."
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