(common).—1. The nose. Also, HORNBY. For synonyms, see CONK.
1823. BADCOCK (‘Jon Bee’), Dictionary of the Turf, etc., s.v. HORNEY—a nose; one that resounds in expectoration.
2. (common).—A drink; a dram of spirits. For synonyms, see GO.
1847. W. T. PORTER, ed., A Quarter Race in Kentucky, etc., p. 193. Go on, Venus. Take another HORN first.
1848. RUXTON, Life in the Far West, p. 126. They called the Scotchman to take a HORN.
3. (venery).—An erection of the penis. [Properly of men only; but said of both sexes. In the feminine equivalents are CUNT-ITCH and CUNT-STAND.]
Hence TO GET (or HAVE) THE HORN, verb phr. = to achieve erection; TO CURE THE HORN = to copulate; HORNING and HORNY, in course of, or disposed to erection; HORNIFICATION, subs. = the state, or process, of erection; HORNIFY (see verb), = to get (or give) the HORN; MISS HORNER, subs. = the pudendum muliebre; OLD HORNEY (or HORNINGTON) = the penis.
ENGLISH SYNONYMS.—Cock- (or prick-) stand; Irish toothache; in one’s Sunday (or best) clothes; the jack; hard-on (American); horn-colic; horn-mad (said also of an angry cuckold); fixed bayonets; lance in rest; the old Adam; standing; on the stand; stiffened up; the spike.
4. (old).—The penis. For synonyms, see CREAMSTICK and PRICK.
5. (colloquial).—Also in pl. see verbs.
