Hor*ris"o*nous (?), a. [L. horrisonus; horrere to be horrible + sonus a
sound.] Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. [Obs.] Bailey.
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.