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Ghost

Ghost (ghost)
n.(?)
Ghost
[OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g&amacr]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g(?)st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]

  1. The spirit; the soul of man.
    [Obs.]

    Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser.

  2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.

    The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak.

    I thought that I had died in sleep,
    And was a blessed ghost.
    Coleridge.

  3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.

    Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe.

  4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.

    Ghost moth (Zoöl.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. -- Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. -- To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.

    And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer.

    Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33.


Ghost

Ghost (ghost)
v. i.
Ghost
  1. To die; to expire.
    [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Ghost

Ghost (ghost)
v. t.
Ghost
  1. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
    [Obs.] Shak.













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