Word Meanings - HORROR-STICKEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.

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• BLANKET STITCH
  A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material, as blankets, too thick to hem.
• BLANKET CLAUSE
  A clause, as in a blanket mortgage or policy, that includes a group or class of things, rather than a number mentioned individually and having the burden, loss, or the like, apportioned among them.
• HORRIFIC
  Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.
• HORRIFICATION
  That which causes horror. Miss Edgeworth.
• BLANKETING
  1. Cloth for blankets. 2. The act or punishment of tossing in a blanket. That affair of the blanketing happened to thee for the fault thou wast guilty of. Smollett.
• BLANKNESS
  The state of being blank.
• BLANKET
  A piece of rubber, felt, or woolen cloth, used in the tympan to make it soft and elastic. 3. A streak or layer of blubber in whales. Note: The use of blankets formerly as curtains in theaters explains the following figure of Shakespeare. Nares.
• HORROR
  horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be 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,
• BLANKLY
  1. In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly. G. Eliot. 2. Directly; flatly; point blank. De Quincey.
• BLANK
  fem. blanche, fr. OHG. blanch shining, bright, white, G. blank; akin 1. Of a white or pale color; without color. To the blank moon Her office they prescribed. Milton. 2. Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled
• HORROR-STRUCK
  Horror-stricken; horrified. M. Arnold.
• STRUCKEN
  p. p. of Strike. Shak.
• STRICKEN
  1. Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer. Note: 2. Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21. Abraham was old and well stricken in age. Gen. xxiv. 1. 3. Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
• STRUCK
  imp. & p. p. of Strike. Struck jury , a special jury, composed of persons having special knowledge or qualifications, selected by striking from the panel of jurors a certain number for each party, leaving the number required by law to
• BLANKET MORTGAGE; BLANKET POLICY
  One that covers a group or class of things or properties instead of one or more things mentioned individually, as where a mortgage secures various debts as a group, or subjects a group or class of different pieces of property to one general lien.
• HORROR-STICKEN
  Struck with horror; horrified. Blank and horror-stricken faces. C. Kingsley.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• MOONSTRUCK
  1. Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic. 2. Produced by the supposed influence of the moon. "Moonstruck madness." Milton. 3. Made sick by the supposed influence of the moon, as a human being; made unsuitable
• MOONSTRICKEN
  See MOONSTRUCK
• AWE-STRICKEN
  Awe-struck.
• MACKINAW BLANKET; MACKINAW
  A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States. (more info) Michigan, where blankets and other stores were distributed to the
• SUN-STRUCK
  Overcome by, or affected with, sunstroke; as, sun-struck soldiers.