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horner | honorable |

As a proper noun horner

is .

As a noun horner

is (informal) someone who is from the horn of africa.

As an adjective honorable is

(us) worthy of respect; respectable.

horner

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who works or deals in horn or horns.
    • (Grew)
  • * 1873 , Calendar of State Papers
    • As also all patents for new inventions not put in practice within three years, likewise the several grants of incorporation to hatband makers, gutstring makers, spectacle makers, comb makers, tobacco-pipe makers, butchers, and horners .
  • (obsolete) One who blows a horn.
    • (Sherwood)
  • (obsolete) One who horns or cuckolds.
    • (Massinger)
  • The British sand lance or sand eel, Ammodytes lanceolatus .
    • (Webster 1913)

    honorable

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * honourable

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US) Worthy of respect; respectable.

    • Antonyms

    * despicable * mean