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noun

Ghost n.

1.

The spirit; the soul of man. (Obs.) "Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament."

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

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."

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." "Jacob... yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people".

verb

Ghost v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. (Obs.)

Ghost v. i. To die; to expire. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Ghost'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ghost" Quotes from Famous Books

... belief that the souls of the dead inhabit the form of birds, we need not travel to the East. Lord Lyttleton's ghost story, the belief of the Duchess of Kendal, that George I. flew into her window in the shape of a raven (see Orford's Reminiscences, Lord Orford's Works, 1798, iv. 283), and many other instances, bring this ...

— The Works Of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 7) • Lord Byron

... Triplet groaned, and at last his inarticulate murmurs became words: "That's right, pit now, that is so reasonable to condemn a poor fellow's play before you have heard it out." Then, with a change of tone, "Tom," muttered he, "they are losing their respect for specters; if they do, hunger will make a ghost of me." Next he fancied the clown or somebody had got into ...

— Peg Woffington • Charles Reade

... are you talking about, Dick?" cried the lad. "You don't mean that the smuggler's a sort of ghost, ...

— Cutlass and Cudgel • George Manville Fenn

... of the affair is the effect of this vagary even on a sober-minded man like myself. The black veil, though it covers only our pastor's face, throws its influence over his whole person and makes him ghost-like from head to foot. Do you not ...

— Twice Told Tales • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... he is an empty shape and nothing more, he must not flatter himself that he has accomplished a great work. Life is not for the dead, but for the living, and in crucifying our flesh we have to be quite certain that we are playing no ghost's farce, inflicting airy penalties on some handfuls of harsh dust. Robert could not feel that absorbing interest in himself which enables so many to cut themselves adrift, painfully, no doubt, from every creature ...

— Robert Orange - Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange • John Oliver Hobbes

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