thrill

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To cause to feel a sudden intense sensation; excite greatly.
2. v. To give great pleasure to; delight. See Synonyms at enrapture.
3. v. To cause to quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
4. v. To feel a sudden quiver of excitement or emotion.
5. v. To quiver, tremble, or vibrate.
6. n. A quivering or trembling caused by sudden excitement or emotion.
7. n. A source or cause of excitement or emotion.
8. n. Pathology A slight palpable vibration that often accompanies certain cardiac and circulatory abnormalities.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To bore; pierce; perforate; drill: thirl. Compare thirl, 1.
2. To penetrate or permeate with a sudden wave of feeling, as of pleasure, pity, remorse, etc.; affect or fill with a tingling emotion or sensation. Compare thirl, 2.
3. To hurl.
4. To penetrate or permeate; pass, run, or stir with sudden permeating inflow; move quiveringly or so as to cause a sort of shivering sensation.
5. To be agitated or moved by or as by the permeating inflow of some subtle feeling or influence; quiver; shiver.
6. To quiver or move with a tremulous movement; vibrate; throb, as a voice.
7. n. A hole; specifically, a breathing-hole: a nostril. Compare nostril (nose-thrill).
8. n. A subtle permeating influx of emotion or sensation; a feeling that permeates the whole system with subtle, irresistible force: as, a thrill of horror.
9. n. In medicine, a peculiar tremor felt, in certain conditions of the respiratory or circulatory organs, upon applying the hand to the body; fremitus.
10. n. A throb; a beat or pulsation.
11. n. A tale or book the hearing or perusal of which sends a thrill or sensation of pleasure, pity, or excitement through one; a sensational story.
12. To warble; trill.
13. n. A warbling; a trill.

Wiktionary

1. v. ergative To suddenly excite someone, or to give someone great pleasure; to (figuratively) electrify; to experience such a sensation.
2. v. ergative To (cause something to) tremble or quiver.
3. v. obsolete To pierce.
4. n. a trembling or quivering, especially one caused by emotion
5. n. a cause of sudden excitement; a kick
6. n. medicine a slight quivering of the heart that accompanies a cardiac murmur

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A warbling; a trill.
2. n. A breathing place or hole; a nostril, as of a bird.
3. v. obsolete To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill.
4. v. Hence, to affect, as if by something that pierces or pricks; to cause to have a shivering, throbbing, tingling, or exquisite sensation; to pierce; to penetrate.
5. v. obsolete To hurl; to throw; to cast.
6. v. To pierce, as something sharp; to penetrate; especially, to cause a tingling sensation that runs through the system with a slight shivering.
7. v. To feel a sharp, shivering, tingling, or exquisite sensation, running through the body.
8. n. A drill. See 3d drill, 1.
9. n. A sensation as of being thrilled; a tremulous excitement.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. something that causes you to experience a sudden intense feeling or sensation
2. v. feel sudden intense sensation or emotion
3. n. an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
4. v. cause to be thrilled by some perceptual input
5. v. tremble convulsively, as from fear or excitement
6. v. fill with sublime emotion
7. n. the swift release of a store of affective force