HORN-Blend, is a black or green indurated hole or clay, consisting of fealy particles, which are distinguishable from those of mica, by being less shining, thicker, and rectangular. It is generally found amongst iron ores, and sometimes intermixed with mica, forming a compact stone.
Human Horns. In Dr Charles Leigh's natural history of Lancashire, Cheshire, and the Peak in Derbyshire, is the print of a woman with two horns on her head. When she was 28 years of age an excrescence grew upon her head like a wen, which continued 30 years, and then grew into two horns. After four years she cast them, and in their place grew two others. After four years she cast these also; and the horns which were on her head in 1668 (the time when the account was written) were then loose. Her picture and one of her horns are in Ashmole's museum. In the university library at Edinburgh is preserved a horn which was cut from the head of Elizabeth Love, in the 50th year of her age. It grew three inches above the ear, and was growing seven years.