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- English Word Horrify Definition To cause to feel horror; to strike or impress with horror; as, the sight horrified the beholders.
- English Word Horrifying Definition of Horrify
- English Word Horripilation Definition A real or fancied bristling of the hair of the head or body, resulting from disease, terror, chilliness, etc.
- English Word Horrisonant Definition Horrisonous.
- English Word Horrisonous Definition Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.
- English Word Horror Definition A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
- English Word Horror Definition 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.
- English Word Horror Definition A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.
- English Word Horror Definition That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.
- English Word Horror-sticken Definition Struck with horror; horrified.
- English Word Horror-struck Definition Horror-stricken; horrified.
- English Word Hors de combat Definition Out of the combat; disabled from fighting.
- English Word Horse Definition A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
- English Word Horse Definition The male of the genus horse, in distinction from the female or male; usually, a castrated male.
- English Word Horse Definition Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot.
- English Word Horse Definition A frame with legs, used to support something; as, a clotheshorse, a sawhorse, etc.
- English Word Horse Definition A frame of timber, shaped like a horse, on which soldiers were made to ride for punishment.
- English Word Horse Definition Anything, actual or figurative, on which one rides as on a horse; a hobby.
- English Word Horse Definition A mass of earthy matter, or rock of the same character as the wall rock, occurring in the course of a vein, as of coal or ore; hence, to take horse -- said of a vein -- is to divide into branches for a distance.
- English Word Horse Definition See Footrope, a.
- English Word Horse Definition A breastband for a leadsman.
- English Word Horse Definition An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.
- English Word Horse Definition A jackstay.
- English Word Horse Definition To provide with a horse, or with horses; to mount on, or as on, a horse.
- English Word Horse Definition To sit astride of; to bestride.
- English Word Horse Definition To cover, as a mare; -- said of the male.
- English Word Horse Definition To take or carry on the back; as, the keeper, horsing a deer.
- English Word Horse Definition To place on the back of another, or on a wooden horse, etc., to be flogged; to subject to such punishment.
- English Word Horse Definition To get on horseback.
- English Word Horse Guards Definition A body of cavalry so called; esp., a British regiment, called the Royal Horse Guards, which furnishes guards of state for the sovereign.