harfor

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&unr_;sh to bristle. ] 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. [ 1913 Webster ]

How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered? Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

The horrors, delirium tremens. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]