Bible Dictionaries
Horror

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

(3):

(n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

(4):

(n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Horror'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​h/horror.html. 1828.