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

Same as Orchidaceous.

To make barbarous. The hideous changes which have barbarized France. Burke.

narch lay battening in ease. Garth. Skeptics, with a taste for carrion, who batten on the hideous facts in history, -- persecutions, inquisitions. Emerson.

An orchideous plant with matted roots, of the genus Neottia (N. nidus-avis.) Bird's-nest pudding, a pudding containing apples whose cores have been replaces by sugar. -- Yellow bird's nest, a plant, the Monotropa hypopitys.

To deck; to embellish; to adorn. She blazons in dread smiles her hideous form. Garth.

. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.

Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections. Hideous grimaces . . . attended this unusual cachinnation. Sir W. Scott.

An object at which stones are flung. "Making a cockshy of him," replied the hideous small boy. Dickens.

sually inclosing a lagoon. See Atoll. -- Coral root (Bot.), a genus (Corallorhiza) of orchideous plants, of a yellowish or brownish red color, parasitic on roots of other plants, and having curious jointed or knotted roots not unlike some kinds of coral. See Illust. under Coralloid. -- Coral snake. (Zo) (a) A small,…

To prepare for action or use; to make ready; to dight. [Obs.] His hideous club aloft he dites. Spenser.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

Loud or rapid talk without meaning. Forthwith a hideous gabble rises loud Among the builders. Milton.

Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. [Obs.] "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.

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

Grim; hideous; stern. [R.] In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. D. Mallet.

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.

The state or quality of being horrible; dreadfulness; hideousness. The horribleness of the mischief. Sir P. Sidney.

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

Impending; threatening. Impendent horrors, threatening hideous fall. Milton.