01 n. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
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A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.[Archaic]“Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.” — Chapman.
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2.
A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.
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A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.“How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?” — Milton.
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That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.“Breathes a browner horror on the woods.” — Pope.
Phrases & compounds
The horrors —
delirium tremens.