Hunting-horn

  • 41French horn — noun a brass musical instrument consisting of a conical tube that is coiled into a spiral and played by means of valves (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑horn • Hypernyms: ↑brass, ↑brass instrument * * * noun Usage: usually capitalized F …

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  • 42French horn — a musical brass wind instrument with a long, coiled tube having a conical bore and a flaring bell. See illus. under horn. [1735 45] * * * Orchestral and military brass instrument, a valved circular horn with a wide bell. It is normally a… …

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  • 43Blowing horn — The blowing horn or winding horn is a sound device by and large shaped like a horn or actually a cattle horn arranged to blow from a hole in the pointed end of it. This rudimentary device had in former times a variety of functions in many Western …

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  • 44French horn — Synonyms and related words: alpenhorn, alphorn, althorn, alto horn, ballad horn, baritone, bass horn, brass choir, brass wind, brass wind instrument, brasses, bugle, bugle horn, clarion, cornet, cornet a pistons, corno di caccia, cornopean,… …

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  • 45hand horn — noun : a natural French horn whose pitch a player can modify or alter by inserting his hand in the bell * * * a forerunner of the modern French horn, developed in Germany during the mid 17th century. See illus. under horn. * * * hand horn, a… …

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  • 46bugle-horn — būˈgle horn noun 1. A horn used as a drinking vessel or hunting horn 2. A treble instrument with or without keys, usu made of copper, similar to the trumpet, but having the bell less expanded and the tube shorter and more conical, used more for… …

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  • 47French horn — noun The American name for a coiled brass musical instrument derived from the French hunting horn, having rotary valves. Syn: Viennese horn …

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  • 48bugle horn — noun Etymology: bugle (II) : bugle 2 * * * bugle horn, a bugle or hunting horn …

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  • 49French horn — /frɛntʃ ˈhɔn/ (say french hawn) noun a mellow toned brass wind instrument derived from the hunting horn and consisting of a long, coiled tube ending in a flaring bell …

  • 50Human hunting — is a quasi urban legend, where certain people hunt and kill humans for the purpose of pleasure or entertainment. Serial killer Robert Hansen would abduct and hunt his victims before killing them. Some science fiction writers depicted fictional… …

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