Part 481

Coleridge.

His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.

Macaulay.

2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

Milton.

Ghast"ly, adv. In a ghastly manner; hideously.

Staring full ghastly like a strangled man.

Shak.

Ghast"ness, n. Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak.

{ ||Ghat Ghaut } (?), n. [Hind. ght.]

1. A pass through a mountain. [India] J. D. Hooker.

2. A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).

3. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. [India] Malcom.

||Gha*wa"zi (?), n. pl. [Etymol. uncertain.] Egyptian dancing girls, of ||a lower sort than the almeh.

{ Ghe"ber Ghe"bre } (?), n. [Pers. ghebr: cf. F. GuËbre. Cf. Giaour.] A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.

Ghee (g), n. [Hind. gh clarified butter, Skr. ghta.] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.

Gher"kin (gr"kn), n. [D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogÛrek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. 'aggoy`rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyr, Per. khiyr.]

1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.

2. (Zoˆl.) See Sea gherkin.

Ghess (?), v. t. & i. See Guess. [Obs.]

||Ghet"to (?), n. [It.] The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.

I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell.

Evelyn.

Ghib"el*line (?), n. [It. Ghibellino; of German origin.] (It. Hist.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.

Ghole (?), n. See Ghoul.

Ghost (?), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gst 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.]