Such fresh horror as you see driven through the
wrinkled waves. --Chapman.
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.
3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a
shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling
inspired by something frightful and shocking.
How could this, in the sight of heaven, without
horrors of conscience be uttered? --Milton.
4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom;
dreariness.
Breathes a browner horror on the woods. --Pope.
{The horrors}, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]