LekhoriLekhoriHard or bony, like an animal's horn.
Two Dwarfs were at the bellows, another was holding a piece of red-hot metal on the anvil with a pair of tongs, a fourth was hammering it, and two, wiping their horny little hands on a greasy cloth, were coming forward to meet the visitors.
Having the hard consistency and pale colour of an animal's horn.
She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.
From Middle English horny, equivalent to horn + -y. Compare German hornig. Compare also Dutch hoornachtig, Swedish hornaktig, Old English hyrniġ (“angular”).
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