Emily Dickinson Lexicon — HOR'RI-FI-ED

Dictionary: HOR'RI-FI-ED – HORSE-FAC-ED

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HOR'RI-FI-ED, a. [or pp.]

Made horrible; struck with horror.

HOR'RI-FY, v.t. [L. horror and facio.]

To make horrible; to strike with horror. E. Irving.

A sensation of motion or creeping of the hair of the head in connection with shaking, or resulting from sudden fright.

HOR-RIS'ON-OUS, a. [L. horrisonus; horreo, to shake, and sonus, sound.]

Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

HOR'ROR, n. [L. from horreo, to shake or shiver, or to set up the bristles, to be rough.]

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.
An excessive degree of fear, or a painful emotion which makes a person tremble; terror; a shuddering with fear; but appropriately, terror or a sensation approaching it, accompanied with hatred or detestation. Horror is often a passion compounded of fear and hatred or disgust. The recital of a bloody deed fills us with horror. A horror of great darkness fell on Abram. Gen. xv. Horror hath taken hold on me, because of the wicked that forsake thy law. Ps. xix.
That which may excite horror or dread; gloom; dreariness. And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope.
Dreadful thoughts.
Distressing scenes; as, the horrors of war or famine.

Struck with horror.

HORS-DE-COMBAT, a. [Hors de combat; hore de combä. Fr.]

Out of the combat; disabled to fight.

HORSE, n. [Sax. hors; G. ross; D. ros; Fr. rosse; It. rozzo.]

A species of quadrupeds of the genus Equus, having six erect and parallel foreteeth in the upper jaw, and six somewhat prominent in the under jaw; the dogteeth are solitary, and the feet consist of an undivided hoof. The horse is a beautiful animal, and of great use for draught, or conveyance on his back. Horse, in English, is of common gender, and may comprehend the male and female.
A constellation. Creech.
Cavalry; a body of troops serving on horseback. In this sense, it has no plural termination. We say, a thousand horse; a regiment of horse.
A machine by which something is supported; usually, a wooden frame with legs. Various machines used in the arts are thus called. Encyc.
A wooden machine on which soldiers ride by way of punishment; sometimes called a timber-mare. Johnson.
In seamen's language, a rope extending from the middle of a yard to its extremity, to support the sailors while they loose, reef or furl the sails; also, a thick rope extended near the mast for hoisting a yard or extending a sail on it. Mar. Dict. To take horse, to set out to ride on horseback. Addison. #2. To be covered, as a mare.

HORSE, v.t.