Generally speaking, the reader of an animal has been so thoroughly blended with the h

Generally speaking, the reader of an animal has been so thoroughly blended with the horn, that it can hardly be distinguished. By the horn, however, we must be understood to mean, a portion of the animal matter, which has been rendered soft and flexible, by means of a peculiar organic substance, termed horn, and which has been moulded into a shape, so as to form a distinct part of an animal.