HORNER. A manufacturer of horn. In London the horners and bottle-makers form one Company. Horn was anciently applied to many uses for which glass and other materials are at present employed. "Horns," says Fuller, "are a commodity not to be slighted, seeing I cannot call to mind any other substance so hard that it will not break ; so solid that it will hold liquor within it ; and yet so clear that light Avill pass through it. No mechanical trade but hath some utensils made thereof ; and even now I recruit my pen with ink from a vessel of the same. Yea, it is useful cap-apie, fi-om combs to shoeiug-horns. What shall I speak of many gardens made of horns to garnish houses ? I mean artificial fiowers of all colours. And besides what is spent in England, many thousand weight are shaven down into leaves for lanthorns,

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.