horrent
English
Adjective
horrent (comparative more horrent, superlative most horrent)
- Standing erect, as bristles; covered with bristling points; bristled; bristling.
- 1835, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Rienzi:
- He was now at the spot in which his brother had left him; hastily he glanced behind, and saw the couched lance and horrent crest of the horseman close at his rear; despairingly he looked up, and behold! his brother bursting through the tangled brakes that clothed the mountain, and bounding to his succour.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for horrent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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