noun a bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
2. horror ·noun that which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
3. horror ·noun a painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
4. horror ·noun 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.