Horizontal-refreshment, subs. (venery).—1. Carnal intercourse; cf., Upright. For synonyms, see Greens and Ride. [Fr., une horizontale = a prostitute.] Also, To Horizontalise. [[351]]
2. (common).—Food taken standing; generally applied to a mid-day snack at a bar.
Horn, subs. (common).—1. The nose. Also, Horney. For synonyms, see Conk.
1823. Bee, Dict. of the Turf, s.v. Horney—a nose; one that resounds in expectoration.
2. (common).—A drink; a dram of spirits. For synonyms, see Go.
1847. Porter, Quarter Race, p. 193. Go on, Venus. Take another horn first.
1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West. p. 126. They called the Scotchman to take a horn.
3. (venery).—An erection of the penis. [Properly of men only; but said of both sexes. In the feminine equivalents are Cunt-itch and Cunt-stand].
Hence To get (or have) the horn, verb. phr. = to achieve erection; to cure the horn = to copulate; horning and horny, in course of, or disposed to erection; hornification, subs. = the state, or process, of erection; hornify (see verb), = to get (or give) the horn; Miss Horner, subs. = the pudendum muliebre; old horney (or hornington) = the penis.
English Synonyms.—Cock- (or prick-) stand; Irish toothache; in one’s Sunday (or best) clothes; the jack; hard-on (American); horn-colic; horn-mad (said also of an angry cuckold); fixed bayonets; lance in rest; the old Adam; standing; on the stand; stiffened up; the spike.