stag's horn

British  

/ ˈstæɡˌhɔːn /

noun

1. the antlers of a stag used as a material for carved implements

2. a creeping variety of club moss, Lycopodium clavatum , growing on moors and mountains, having silvery hair points on its leaves

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Example Sentences

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

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

Ashes of wolf's skull, stag's horn, the heads of mice, the eyes of crabs, owl's brains, liver of frogs, viper's fat, grasshoppers, bats, etc., these supplied the alkalis which were prescribed.

From Life in a Thousand Worlds by Harris, W. S. (William Shuler)

There was a stag's horn over the staircase: 'Willum' loved to tell how it came there.

From The Amateur Poacher by Jefferies, Richard

Mr. Bald mentions that near it were found two pieces of stag's horn, artificially cut, through one of which a hole, about an inch in diameter, had been perforated.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir