1. Hipp. pièce de la selle.
2. Rameau de vigne courbé.
ETYM AS. horn; akin to Dutch horen, hoorn, German, Icel., Swed., and Dan. horn, Goth. haúrn, W., Gael., and Irish corn, Latin cornu, Greek, and perh. also to Eng. cheer, cranium, cerebral; cf. Skr. çiras head. Related to Carat, Corn on the foot, Cornea, Corner, Cornet, Cornucopia, Hart.
1. A high pommel of a saddle.
2. Any outgrowth from the head of an organism that resembles a horn.
3. One of the bony outgrowths on the heads of certain ungulates.
4. The material (mostly keratin) that covers the horns of ungulates and forms hooves and claws and nails.