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horner, n.1|ˈhɔːnə(r)|
[f. horn n. or v. + -er1.]
1. A worker in horn; a maker of horn spoons, combs, etc.
1421–2[see horning vbl. n. 2]. c1440Promp. Parv. 247/1 Hornare, or horne make[r], cornutarius. 1464Rolls Parl. V. 567/1 The men of the Craft of Horners enfraunchised in the Cite of London. 1484Nottingham Rec. II. 346 Georgius Hoton..horner. 1607Dekker Knt.'s Conjur. (1842) 18 The head-warden of the horners. 1766Entick London IV. 309 The most reputable inhabitants are the horners, who prepare horn for petty manufacturers. 1896A. W. Tuer Hist. Horn-Bk. I. vii. 91 The Horners' Exhibition held in London in 1882.
†b. One who makes musical horns. Obs.
1530Palsgr. 232/2 Horner a maker of hornes, cornettier. 1552Loseley MSS. (Kempe 1835) 53 Horner for blowinge hornes, turner for daggers.
2. One who blows or winds a horn.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 575/31 Cornicarius, an hornere. 1611Cotgr., Corneux, a Horner; a winder of a Horne. 1677N. Cox Gentlem. Recreat. (ed. 2) A iv b, Mr. Michael Marsh, Horner..who teaches to blow the Horn. 1827in Hone Every-day Bk. II. 121 The keeper..blew ‘the death of the buck’, and..the horners..answered him. 1894F. R. Stockton Pomona's Trav. 25 The horner blew his horn until his eyes seemed bursting.
†3. One who cuckolds; a cuckold-maker. Obs.
1598Florio, Cornaro,..a horner. 1690D'Urfey Collin's Walk iii. (D.), Till th' Jury..Their favour gave with sense adorn'd, Not to the horner, but the horn'd. 1717Bullock Woman a Riddle i. i, A cornuted coxcomb, that cou'd not smell his Horner from his house-dog.
†4. A person who has been ‘put to the horn’ or declared a rebel. Sc. Obs.
1590Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 525/1 Thair names salbe deleit out of the catologe of hornaris and..they sall not be forder troublit for that horning in tyme cuming. 1598Ibid. IV. 174/2 To the effect the haill horneris registrat thairin and remaneing vnrelaxt may be extractit and chargit.
Hence † ˈhorneress, a female worker in horn or maker of horns.
1530Palsgr. 232/2 Horneresse, a woman, cornettiere. |