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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

... the matter? Oh, I thought you were a ghost!" She clutched at June with both hands. "Oh, is anything ...

— The Phantom Lover • Ruby M. Ayres

... execution—a circumstance which produced a general laugh in the crowd—a smile was observed upon Balthazar's face in sympathy with the general hilarity. His lips were seen to move up to the moment when his heart was thrown in his face—"Then," said a looker-on, "he gave up the ghost." ...

— The Rise of the Dutch Republic, 1555-1566 • John Lothrop Motley

... low voice that once upon a time, on a dark wintry night, when the wind was unruly, howling and whistling, banging about doors and windows, and twirling weathercocks, so that the living were frightened out of their beds, and even the dead could not sleep quietly in their graves, the ghost of honest Preston was attracted by the well-known call of "waiter," and made its sudden appearance just as the parish clerk was singing a stave from the "mirrie ...

— An English Grammar • W. M. Baskervill and J. W. Sewell

... the Wind to the Moon, "I will blow you out. You stare in the air Like a ghost in a chair, Always looking what I am about, I hate to be watched; I'll ...

— De La Salle Fifth Reader • Brothers of the Christian Schools

... week days the shutters of this grim apartment were kept closed, and an inquisitive eye, applied to the keyhole, could just faintly discern the portrait in crayon of the late Mr. Handsomebody, presiding, like some whiskered ghost, over the revels of the stuffed birds in the ...

— Explorers of the Dawn • Mazo de la Roche

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