1. (n.) A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

2. (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.

3. (n.) A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

4. (n.) That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

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