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Webster 1913 Edition
Horrid
1.
Rough; rugged; bristling.
[Archaic]
Horrid
with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden.
2.
Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive.
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Of
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horrid
hell. Shakespeare
Syn. – Frightful; hideous; alarming; shocking; dreadful; awful; terrific; horrible; abominable.
Webster 1828 Edition
Horrid
HOR'RID
,Adj.
1.
That does or may excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; as a horrid spectacle or sight; horrid sympathy.2.
Rough; rugged. This is the literal and primary sense. Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn.
3.
Shocking; very offensive; a colloquial sense.