Ghost

Definition of Ghost

Pronunciation: gōst

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.

- Spenser.

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.

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.

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
(Theol.) the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity.

To give 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.

v. i.

To die; to expire.

v. t.

To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.

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