Hor"ror (?), n. [Formerly written
horrour.] [L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to
shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible;
cf. Skr. h?sh to bristle.] 1. A
bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
[Archaic]
Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
wrinkled waves.
Chapman.
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.
3. 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.
4. That which excites horror or dread, or is
horrible; gloom; dreariness.
Breathes a browner horror on the
woods.
Pope.
The horrors, delirium tremens.
[Colloq.]