Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Covered with bristles; bristling.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristling.
- Horrible; abhorring.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
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- adjective Standing erect, as
bristles ; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Next, as to armaments: Will you present a greater terror to the foe if you appear furnished yourself from head to foot with bright emlazonrie and horrent arms; 200 or rather by reason of the warlike aspect of a whole city perfectly equipped?
Hiero 2007
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Sicut viatores si ad saxum impegerint, aut nautae, memores sui casus, non ista modo quae offendunt, sed et similia horrent perpetuo et tremunt.
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Et insuper addemus, h鎐 ipsa cibaria, qu� extranei quidam vel nominare horrent, ipsos tamen extraneos apud nos, non sine voluptate, manducare solitos.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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But shorn of his falling hair, and without a streak of paint on his cheeks, verily his heart might be found to die within him, before furies with faces fiery with rouge, and heads horrent with pomatum -- till instinctively he strove to roll himself up in the Persian carpet, and there prayed for deliverance to his tutelary gods.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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And first indeed Parthenopæus the son of the huntress (Atalanta) led his division horrent with their thick shields against the Neïtan gate, having a family device in the middle of his shield, Atalanta destroying the Ætolian boar with her distant-wounding bow.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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Shorty stretched on tiptoe, brought his eye to the level of the bar, and gazed upon the horrent head of Bailey.
Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913
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The golden throne had become a "siege perilous," and she abdicated in favor of the grasshopper and his black and horrent visitor.
Queen Hildegarde Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896
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Now I mark them all suspended, horrent, in the open air,
Maha-bharata The Epic of Ancient India Condensed into English Verse Romesh Dutt 1878
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Next, as to armaments: Will you present a greater terror to the foe if you appear furnished yourself from head to foot with bright emlazonrie and horrent arms; or rather by reason of the warlike aspect of a whole city perfectly equipped?
Hiero 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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All horrent the cobra exalts his hooded head, and the spanning jaws fly open.
The fiend's delight 1873
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