Hartshorn /(-hôrn`)/
Harts·horn
Hartshorn
n.
- The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
- Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
Phrases & Compounds
- Hartshorn plantain
- an annual species of plantain (Plantago Coronopus); -- called also buck's-horn.
- Hartshorn shavings
- originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly.
- Salt of hartshorn
- an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts.
- Spirits of hartshorn
- a solution of ammonia in water; -- so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.