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Horn

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In old Scotch practice. A kind of trumpet used in denouncing contumacious persons rebels and outlaws, which was done with three blasts of the horn by the king's sergeant This was called "putting to the horn;" and the party so denounced was said to be "at the horn." Bell.

See Horning.