Definition of Ghst
Ghost (?), n. [OE. gast,
gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst 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, v. i. To die; to
expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost, v. t. To appear to or haunt
in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
He saw a ghost.
It occupied -- that dismal thing! --
The path that he was following.
Before he'd time to stop and fly,
An earthquake trifled with the eye
That saw a ghost.
He fell as fall the early good;
Unmoved that awful vision stood.
The stars that danced before his ken
He wildly brushed away, and then
He saw a post.
Jared Macphester
Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions
somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much
afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such
tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of
my own experience.
There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost
never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his
habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not
only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is
nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile
fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability,
what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the
apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost
in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and
get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- (obsolete) The spirit; the soul of man.
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. — Shakespeare.
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.
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, camera, or other optical device by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
- An unwanted image similar to and overlapping or adjacent to the main one on a television screen, caused by the transmitted image being received both directly and via reflection.
- A ghostwriter.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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