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Webster 1913 Edition
Ghost
Ghost
(gōst)
, Noun.
[OE.
gast
, gost
, soul, spirit, AS. gāst
breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst
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. Shakespeare
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed
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
(Zool.)
, 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 the ghost
or To 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 peopleGen. xlix. 33.
Ghost
,Verb.
I.
To die; to expire.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost
,Verb.
T.
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
[Obs.]
Shak.
Webster 1828 Edition
Ghost
GHOST
,Noun.
1.
Spirit; the soul of man. In this sense seldom used. But hence,
2.
The soul of a deceased person; the soul or spirit separate from the body; an apparition. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
To give up the ghost, is to die; to yield up the breath or spirit; to expire.
The Holy Ghost, is the third person in the adorable Trinity.
GHOST
,Verb.
I.
GHOST
,Verb.
T.