Horʹnie (2 syl.)
.Auld Hornie. The devil, so called in Scotland. The allusion is to the horns with which Satan is generally represented. (See Fairy.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.