stag's horn
Britishnoun
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the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements
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a creeping variety of club moss, Lycopodium clavatum , growing on moors and mountains, having silvery hair points on its leaves
Example Sentences
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He took equal parts of cuttle bone, small white sea-shells, pumice stone, burnt stag's horn, nitre, alum, rock salt, burnt roots of iris, aristolochia, and reeds.
From Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages by Walsh, James Joseph
He was a big fellow, and strongly built, his body painted all over, with a stag’s horn on each cheek and large circles round his eyes.
From Notable Voyagers From Columbus to Nordenskiold by Kingston, William Henry Giles
F is broken, but what remains of it is a bit of stag's horn.
From Just So Stories by Kipling, Rudyard
Above it was a star of palm leaves and fern, radiating from a centre, which was concealed by an immense stag's horn fungus.
From Fern Vale (Volume 3) or the Queensland Squatter by Munro, Colin
There are a few maple-wood handles of the eighteenth century, and others of stag's horn and of shagreen.
From Chats on Household Curios by Burgess, Fred. W. (Frederick William)
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