Read full poem →At a most keen and arduous height,
Unveils the tender heavens to horny human eyes
Amidst ingenious blasphemies.
Dictionary Entry
Hard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Origin
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Common Phrases
layer horny. hornysubstance hornyplates hornyhands hornyscales horny
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Poetry examples for “horny”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Thirty men they each commanded,
Iron-sinewed, horny-handed,
Shoulders broad, and chests expanded,
Read full poem →In virgin wrapper from deep in the box,
And stroked it with a horny-handed kindness.
He read in one and I read in another,