- (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
- (n.) That which excites horror or dread or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
- (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.
- (n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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