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Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. [Colloq.]

Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance.

Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted; also, broad bands passed around a boat to secure it at the davits and prevent swinging. Gripe penny, a miser; a niggard. D. L. Mackenzie.

c eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power. One fearful shock, fearful but momentary, like from the electric blow of the gymnotus. De Quincey.

The region back of the knee joint; the popliteal space; the hock.

See Hockey. Holloway.

Shocked; dismayed.

To affect at heart; to shock. [R.] "The seek to heartstrike us." B. Jonson.

Shocked with pain, fear, or remorse; dismayed; heartstricken. Milton.

ivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.

Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.

Same as Hockday.

See Hockey.

Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder. A dungeon horrible on all sides round. Milton.

Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. Not in the legions Of horrid hell. Shak. The horrid things they say. Pope.

shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered Milton.

Same as Hock, a joint.

To hock; to hamstring. See Hock. [Obs.] Shak.

, etc., heard at a distance; as, the hum of industry. But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men. Byron.