thrill

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To cause to feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight; excite greatly.
• intransitive verb To cause to quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
• intransitive verb To feel a sudden sensation of pleasure or delight.
• intransitive verb To quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
• noun A sudden feeling of pleasure or excitement.
• noun A source or cause of pleasure or excitement.
• noun A quivering or trembling caused by sudden excitement or emotion.
• noun Medicine A slight palpable vibration associated with a cardiac murmur and certain other cardiac or respiratory conditions.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To bore; pierce; perforate; drill: thirl. Compare thirl, 1.
• To penetrate or permeate with a sudden wave of feeling, as of pleasure, pity, remorse, etc.; affect or fill with a tingling emotion or sensation. Compare thirl, 2.
• To hurl.
• To penetrate or permeate; pass, run, or stir with sudden permeating inflow; move quiveringly or so as to cause a sort of shivering sensation.
• To be agitated or moved by or as by the permeating inflow of some subtle feeling or influence; quiver; shiver.
• To quiver or move with a tremulous movement; vibrate; throb, as a voice.
• noun A warbling; a trill.
• noun A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).
• noun A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.
• noun In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.
• noun A throb; a beat or pulsation.
• noun A tale or book the hearing or perusal of which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, pity, or excitement through one; a sensational story.
• To warble; trill.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A warbling; a trill.
• noun A drill. See 3d drill, 1.
• noun A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement.
• intransitive verb To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering.
• intransitive verb To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
• noun A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
• transitive verb obsolete To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
• transitive verb Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
• transitive verb obsolete To hurl; to throw; to cast.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb ergative To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
• verb ergative To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
• verb obsolete To pierce.
• noun a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion
• noun a cause of sudden excitement; a kick
• noun medicine a slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
• verb feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
• noun an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
• verb cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
• verb tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
• verb fill with sublime emotion
• noun the swift release of a store of affective force