well-horned

See also: well horned

English

Adjective

well-horned (comparative better-horned, superlative best-horned)

1. Having large or fine horns or antlers.
   • 1844, Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Vol. XLVII, p. 131, [1]

     The best horned cattle are those of Dalecarlia.

   • 1923, Richard Goldschmidt, translated by William Dakin, The Mechanism and Physiology of Sex Determination‎^[2], Methuen & Co., page 153:

     In races of sheep where both sexes are equally well horned castration has no effect on the development of horns (the same thing applies in the analogous case of reindeer. […] ).

   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, chapter XI, in Capricornia‎^[3], New York: D. Appleton-Century, published 1943, page 186:

     Bikehandles was a well-horned billy-goat.

   • 2007, Virgil, translated by Frederick Ahl, Aeneid, Oxford University Press, Book 7, 483-5, p. 173:

     He was a handsome buck, well horned with a huge rack of antlers; / Tyrrhus’s boys had been feeding him since he’d been torn from his mother’s / Dugs.

   • 2015, Jonathan Kingdon, The Kingdon Field Guide to African Mammals‎^[4], 2nd edition, Bloomsbury, page 586:

     Piebald males often tolerate the presence of several other well-horned males in their vicinity but these can always be graded by colour and clearly represent hierarchically ordered age-classes.

Alternative forms

• well horned