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.