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H O R 
HOR'RID, adj. [horridus, Lat.] Hideous; dreadful; 
(hocking: 
Horror on them fell, 
And horrid fympathy. 
Milton. 
Shocking; offenfive; unpleafing: 
Already I your tears furvey, 
Already hear the horrid things they fay. 
Pope. 
Rough; rugged: 
Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn, 
Few paths of human feet, or tracks of beafts, 
were worn. 
Dryden. 
HORRID'XTY,/ Horriblenefs. 
HOR'RIDLY, adv. Dreadfully; fhockingly. 
HOR'RIDNESS, f. [from horrid .] Hideoufnefs; enor¬ 
mity.—A bloody defigner fuborns his inftrument to take 
away fuch a man’s life, and the confefl'or reprefents the 
horridnefs of the fact, and brings him to repentance. Ham¬ 
mond. 
HORRIF'EROUS, adj. [horror, Lat. dread, and fero, 
to bring.] Bringing horror; producing horror. 
HORRIF'IC, adj. [horrijicus , Lat.] Caufing horror: 
His jaws horrific, arm’d with three-fold fate. 
Here dwells the direful (hark. Thomfon. 
HORRIPILATION, f. [from homo, Lat. to brittle, 
and pilus, hair.] The riling of the hair on any l'udden 
fright. Bailey. 
HORRIS’ONOUS, adj. \_horrifonus, Lat.] Sounding 
dreadfully. 
HOR'ROR,yi [ horror , Lat. horreur, Fr.] Terror mixed 
with deteftation; a paffion compounded of fear and hate, 
both ttrong : 
Doubtlefs all fouls have a furviving thought, 
Therefore of death we think with quiet mind; 
But, if we think of being turn’d to naught, 
A trembling horror in our fouls we find. Davies. 
■Dreadful thoughts: 
I have fupt full with horrors: 
Direnefs, familiar to my llaught’rous thoughts, 
Cannot once ftart me. Shahefpeare. 
Gloom ; drearinefs: 
Her gloomy prefence faddens all the fcene, 
Shades ev’ry flow’r, and darkens ev’ry green; 
Deepens the murmurs of the falling floods, 
And breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. 
[In medicine.] Such a fhuddering or quivering as pre¬ 
cedes an ague-fit; a fenfe of fhuddering or fhrinking. 
Quincy .—All objects of the fenfes, which are very offen- 
five, do caufe the lpirits to retire; and, upon their flight, 
the parts are in fome degree deftitute, and fo there is in¬ 
duced in them a trepidation and horror. Bacon. 
HOR'ROX (Jeremiah), an eminent Englifh aftrono- 
mer, born at Toxteth, near Liverpool, about the year 
1619. He was fent very young to Emanuel college, Cam¬ 
bridge, where he fpent a confiderable time in academical 
ftudies. About the year 1633, he began to apply himfelf 
to the ftudy of aftronomy; in which he was making a very 
great and early proficiency, when he was fuddenly cut off by 
death in 1640-1, at the age of only twenty-two. Not many 
days before, he had finifhed his Venus in Sole vi/a-, his ob¬ 
servations on which were made at Hool, near Liverpool. 
This treatife was publifhed at Dantzic, in 1662, by Heve- 
iius, together with his own Mercurius in Sole vifus, and il- 
hifixated with that aftronomer’s annotations. Mr. Hor- 
rox’s other papers which are ft ill extant, were digeffed and 
publifhed by Dr. Wallis, in 1673, under the title of Opera 
Pojlhuma, &c. 410. There are two things which will long 
ferve to perpetuate the memory of this ingenious young 
man One is, that he was the firll who ever predicted or 
law the paflage of Venus over the fun’s diik ; and though 
he was not apprifed of the grand ule that was to be made 
of it, in difcovering the parallax and diltance of the fun 
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and planets, yet he made from it many ufeful obfervations, 
corrections, and improvements, in the theory of the mo¬ 
tions of the planet Venus. The other memorable cir- 
cumftance is, his new theory of lunar motions, which 
Newton lfimfelf made the ground-work of all his aftro¬ 
nomy relative to the moon ; always fpeaking of Mr. Hor- 
rox as a genius of the firft rank. 
IIOR'SA, a famous Saxon commander, brother to Hen- 
gift, fo called from the figure of a horfe which he and 
his brother had upon their coats of arms. 
HORSE, f. [hopp, Sax.] Tlfe moft ufeful, elegant, and 
noble, of all quadrupeds; of which mare is the female. 
The word is often ufed in the plural fenfe, but with a lin¬ 
gular termination; for horfes, horfemen, or cavalry.—The 
armies were appointed, confifting of twenty-five thoufand 
horfe and foot, for the repulfing of the enemy at their 
landing. Bacon's War with Spain. 
Tli’ Arcadian horfe 
With ill-fuccefs engage the -Latin force. Dryden 
Something on which any thing is fupported: as, a horfe 
to dry clothes on. A wooden machine which foldiers 
ride by way of punilhment. It is lometimes called a tim¬ 
ber mare. In a fiiip, a rope made fait to one of the forer 
mail Ihrouds, having a dead man’s eye at its end, through 
which the pendant of the fprit-fail Iheet is reeved. 
To HORSE, v. a. To mount upon a horfe; to furnilh 
with a horfe.—After a great fight there came to the camp 
of Gonfalvo, the great captain, proudly horfed and armed. 
Bacon. —To carry on the back.—That treat of the difeom- 
fiting of keepers, horfing the deer on his own back, and 
making off with equal refolution and fuccefs. Butler .—To 
fit altride any thing : 
Stalls, bulks, window's, 
Are fmother’d, leads are fill’d, and ridges hors'd, 
With variable complexions; all agreeing 
In earneftnefs to lee him. Shahefpeare 
To cover a mare.—If you let him out to horfe more mares 
than your own, you muft feed him well. Mortimer. 
For the Natural Hiftory of the Horfe, with its varieties, 
and different fpecies, fee the article Eouus, vol. vi. p. 8S5— 
890; and for the Anatomy of the Horfe, and the Patho- 
logy, qr Difeafes incident to Horfes in general, and me¬ 
thods of cure, fee the article Farriery, vol. vii. p. 223— 
263, with the fet of anatomical Diffeftions correfpondent 
thereto. 
Mr. Aftley, in his i‘ Syftem of Equeftrian Education,” 
has given us the following juft and genuine character of 
the horfe : “ This generous and ferviceabie creature pof- 
fefles the courage of the lion, the fieetnefs of the deer, the 
ftrength of the ox, and the docility of the fpaniel; by his 
aid, men become more acquainted with each other; he 
not only bears us through foreign climes, but likewife la¬ 
bours in the culture of our foil ; draws our burdens and 
ourfelves; carries us for our amufement and our exercife; 
and, both in the fports of the field and on the turf, exerts 
himfelf with an emulation, that evinces how eagerly am¬ 
bitious he is to pleafe and to gratify the defires of his 
mafter. He is both our (lave and our guardian; he gives 
profit to the poor, and pleafure to the rich; in our health 
he forwards our concerns, and in our ficknefs lends his 
wdlling affiftance for our recovery. This fine, this fpirited, 
animal, participates with man the toils of the campaign, 
and the glory of conqueft; penetrating and undaunted as 
his mafter, he views dangers, and braves them ; accuftcmed. 
to the din of arms, he regards it with enthufiafin, feeks 
it with ardour, and feems to vie with his mafter in his 
animated efforts to meet the foe with intrepidity, and to 
conquer every thing that oppofes itfelf to his matchlefs 
courage.” 
On fuch an animal, it is impoffible for mankind to be¬ 
llow too much patient care and attention, inltead of treat¬ 
ing him, as we too often fee, with, ihameful cruelty and 
negledt. Among the polifhed nations of antiquity, both 
in Europe and Alia, this valuable creature was regarded 
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