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Webster 1913 Edition

Hartshorn

Harts′hornˊ

(-hôrnˊ)
,
Noun.
1.
The horn or antler of the hart, or male red deer.
2.
Spirits of hartshorn (see below); volatile salts.
Hartshorn plantain
(Bot.)
,
an annual species of plantain (
Plantago Coronopus
); – called also
buck’s-horn
.
Booth.
–
Hartshorn shavings
,
originally taken from the horns of harts, are now obtained chiefly by planing down the bones of calves. They afford a kind of jelly.
Hebert.
–
Salt of hartshorn
(Chem.)
,
an impure solid carbonate of ammonia, obtained by the destructive distillation of hartshorn, or any kind of bone; volatile salts.
Brande & C.
–
Spirits of hartshorn
(Chem.)
,
a solution of ammonia in water; – so called because formerly obtained from hartshorn shavings by destructive distillation. Similar ammoniacal solutions from other sources have received the same name.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hartshorn

H`ARTSHORN

,
Noun.
The horn of the hart or male deer. The scrapings or raspings of this horn are medicinal, and used in decoctions, ptisans, &c. Hartshorn jelly is nutritive and strengthening. Hartshorn calcined by a strong and long continued heat,is changed into a white earth, which is employed in medicine as an absorbent. The salt of hartshorn is powerful sudorific,and hartshorn yields also a pungent volatile spirit.
The jelly of hartshorn is simply gelatine; the earth remaining after calcination, is phosphate of lime; the salt and spirit of hartshorn are muriate of ammonia, with a little animal oil.
Hartshorn plantain, a species of Plantago.

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