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Definition of Horny

1. Adjective. Feeling great sexual desire. "Feeling horny"

2. Adjective. Having horns or hornlike projections. "Horny (or horned) frog"

3. Adjective. Made of horn (or of a substance resembling horn).

Definition of Horny

1. a. Having horns or hornlike projections.

Definition of Horny

1. Adjective. Hard or bony, like an animal's horn. ¹

2. Adjective. Having horns ¹

3. Adjective. (informal) Sexually aroused. ¹

4. Adjective. (informal) Sexually arousing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Horny

1. hornlike in hardness [adj HORNIER, HORNIEST]

Medical Definition of Horny

1. Of the nature or structure of horn. Synonym: corneous, keratic, keratinous, keratoid, keroid. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horny

hornswoggle hornswoggled hornswoggler hornswogglers hornswoggles hornswoggling horntail horntails hornwork hornworks

hornworms hornwort hornworts hornwrack horoball horocycle horocycles

Literary usage of Horny

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

1. A Textbook of Physiology by Michael Foster (1889)
"The horny layer, which is as we have said of variable but nearly always of ... The upper, outer portion of this horny layer is continually being shed or ..."

2. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1899)
"The horny layer, which is as we have said of variable but nearly always of ... The upper, outer portion of this horny layer is continually being shed or ..."

3. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1908)
"In the horny layer there were at intervals rounded elevations, which were made up of flattened nucleated horny cells in laminae, with, between the laminae, ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1870)
"horny Tumour of the Lower Lip.—Dr. SW GROSS presented a specimen of conical horny ... It then scabbed over, and the horny tumour formed so rapidly that, ..."

5. Essays and Observations on Natural History, Anatomy, Physiology, Psychology by John Hunter, Richard Owen (1861)
"The horny skeleton is truly animal, and is placed principally on the outside ... In the spade-tailed cuttle [Loligo] there is a horny or tortoiseshell blade ..."

6. Elements of Chemistry: Theoretical and Practical by William Allen Miller (1862)
"The subjoined analyses show the composition of some of these substances :— (14')j) horny Mailer.—The composition of buck-horn and of r much resembles that ..."

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