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Dehorned

Dehorn \De*horn"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dehorned; p. pr. & vb. n. Dehorning.] To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth of the horns of (cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn. ``Dehorning cattle.''
--Farm Journal (1886). [1913 Webster] ||

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dehorned

vb. (en-past of: dehorn)

Usage examples of "dehorned".

There were ferocious skirmishers from Kace, who marched, slept, and fought with their dehorned phagors.

There were the phagors, dehorned, who served as something between a slave proper and a beast of burden.

The other end of the rope was held by one of three dehorned phagors who stood motionless against the wall opposite the one against which Shokerandit crouched.

One had only three prongs, having been partly dehorned by a British gun.

One of the men's stag-ponies was poorly dehorned and the horn-bud trickling blood at the base.

Besides that, cattle are dehorned on your earth, do you think that's terrible?

Varney looked like a bull might look, if the bull were to be shaved, dehorned, covered in tattoos, and suffered from complete dental breakdown.

Lots of people planted, castrated pigs, and dehorned calves by the phases of the moon.