Horror (medicine) and hire(1) (iou)

Horror (medicine)

horror

1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. "Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves." (Chapman)

2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a 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)

4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. "Breathes a browner horror on the woods." (Pope) The horrors, delirium tremens.

Origin: L. Horror, fr. Horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. Hsh to bristle.

Source: Websters Dictionary

hire(1) (iou)

hire noun.
[Old English hr = Old Frisian here, Old Saxon huria, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch hure (Dutch huur), from West Germanic.]
Payment under contract for the use of something. OE.
D. Wigoder Regent's Park..with its rowing boats for hire. attrib.: Sunday Express Avis..has hire prices from about 15 per day.
Payment under contract for personal service; wages. ME.
Bible (AV): Luke 10:7 The labourer is worthy of his hire.
fig. Reward, recompense, payment, (for work, service, etc.). ME.
The action of hiring or fact of being hired; engagement on agreed terms of payment for use, service, etc. E17.
Oxford English Dictionary To arrange for the hire of a horse.
One who is hired; an employee. US. L20.
Phrases: for hire available to be hired. on hire available to be hired, that has been hired.
Comb.: hire-car: available for hire; hireman (now only Scot.) a hired servant; hire purchase, hire-purchase system: by which something hired becomes the hirer's after a certain number of payments.
hireless adjective (now rare) without hire; unhired: M17.

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