Definition of "horny"

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.

1951, C. S. Lewis, Prince Caspian, Collins, published 1998, Chapter 6

She could not see, for her whitish eyes were covered with a horny film.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887

In 1997, 4th and 5th grade Waterville Elementary students told me they saw Short-horned lizards (commonly known as Horny toads) all around their area.

2023 December 12, Karen M. Dvornich, “Short-horned Lizard”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, archived from the original on 2010-10-28

[H]er thick, gurgling voice saying […] : "Get it in all the way… please, please do… I’m horny."

1949, Henry Miller, Sexus (The Rosy Crucifixion), Grove Press, published 1965, page 104

After a while I sat down in a chair and smoked a couple of cigarettes. I was feeling pretty horny. I have to admit it.

1951, J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Little, Brown and Company, page 82

Ain’t that the horny bitch that was grindin with the blind dude.

1971 October, Black World, page 65/1

As I turn the corner, starin' in your cornea / You're gettin' hornier and hornier

1993, “Back Seat (of My Jeep)”, in 14 Shots to the Dome, performed by LL Cool J

“Mrs. Fletcher,” the HBO mini-series about a middle-aged woman’s sexual reawakening, showcases a horny mom who can’t stop masturbating to pornography.

2019 December 13, Tracie Egan Morrissey, “The Year Women Got ‘Horny’”, in New York Times‎

Mark Corrigan: She [the dentist] should have to wear a mask for this kind of thing. Reagan or Batman or... actually she'd look pretty horny as Batman... Jesus, no, don't!

2003, Peep Show (TV series), Funeral (episode)