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   Horror , 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. hsh to bristle.]
   A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic]
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   Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves.
   Chapman.
   
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   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.
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   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.
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   Breathes a browner horror on the woods.
   Pope.
   
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   The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]
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