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the only instrument that grows on your enemy and warns you it's coming
means A hard pointed growth on the head of certain animals, or any of various objects and instruments shaped like or made from one, including the brass tube you blow to make sound or the device on a car that blares a warning.
from From Old English 'horn,' a deeply ancient word traced back to Proto-Germanic '*hurnaz' and the Proto-Indo-European root '*ker-' meaning 'head' or 'horn' — the same root family that gives us Latin 'cornu' (whence 'cornet' and 'unicorn') and Greek 'keras.' So the bull's weapon, the trumpet, and the rhinoceros all share one prehistoric ancestor; humans simply blew through the hollow ones and kept the name.
- never stops
- horns grow continuously throughout an animal's entire life
- bone inside
- a living bone core wears a permanent keratin sleeve
- rhino exception
- rhino horns are pure keratin, no bone at all
- car origins
- early car horns were literal squeeze-bulb brass trumpets
- unicorn truth
- narwhal tusks fueled the medieval unicorn horn trade
cape horn — southernmost tip of south america where pacific and atlantic meet, notoriously treacherous waters
horn of africa — geographic region comprising somalia, ethiopia, eritrea extending into the indian ocean
french horn — brass instrument with coiled tubing used in orchestras since the 18th century