Hōr'ror, n.
n. [Fr. horreur, Pr. horror, orror, Sp. & Pg. horror, It. orrore, Lat. horror, from horrere, to bristle, to shiver, tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible.] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness. [Obs. and rare.]
Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.
Sense 2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever. This ague is usually accompanied with a contraction of the skin into small wrinkles, giving it a kind of roughness.
Sense 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.
Sense 4. That which excites horror or dread; gloom; dreariness.
Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope.
The horrors, a result of habits of inebriation; a state of extreme bodily and mental agitation, occasioned by excess in the use of narcotic or intoxicating liquors; delirium tremens.