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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Sounding dreadfully; uttering or emitting a terrible sound.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. obsolete Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. obsolete Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound.

Etymologies

  1. Latin horrisonus; horrere to be horrible + sonus a sound. (Wiktionary)

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  • “The horrisonous whiz of the ostrich eggs from Kamfers Dam was heard again, and back to the "Lift" flew the ladies.”

    The Siege of Kimberley

  • “Service -- that the hundred thousand ears adorning the anatomy of the human population were first shocked by the horrisonous banshee wail of the hooters.”

    The Siege of Kimberley

  • “Then did the mother's rage burst forth without restraint, eloquent, horrisonous.”

    Denzil Quarrier

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