Part 4788

<blockquote>Then gives her grieved <b>ghost</b> thus to lament. <i>Spenser.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.</def>

<blockquote>The mighty <b>ghosts</b> of our great Harrys rose. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed <b>ghost</b>. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; <as>as, not a <ex>ghost</ex> of a chance; the <ex>ghost</ex> of an idea.</as></def>

<blockquote>Each separate dying ember wrought its <b>ghost</b> upon the floor. <i>Poe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.</def>

<cs><col>Ghost moth</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a large European moth <spn>(Hepialus humuli)</spn>; so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also <altname>great swift</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Holy Ghost</col>, <cd>the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; <fld>(Theol.)</fld> the third person in the Trinity.</cd> -- <mcol><col>To</col> <col>give up &or; yield up</col> <col>the ghost</col></mcol>, <cd>to die; to expire.</cd></cs>

<blockquote>And he <b>gave up the ghost</b> full softly. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Jacob . . . <b>yielded up the ghost</b>, and was gathered unto his people. <i>Gen. xlix. 33.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Ghost</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To die; to expire.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir P. Sidney.</i>

<h1>Ghost</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Ghostfish</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost"fish`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A pale ubspotted variety of the wrymouth.</def>

<h1>Ghostless</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost"less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Without life or spirit.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Ghostlike</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost"like`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Like a ghost; ghastly.</def>

<h1>Ghostliness</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost"li*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The quality of being ghostly.</def>

<h1>Ghostly</h1> <Xpage=624>

<hw>Ghost"ly</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>gastlich</ets>, <ets>gostlich</ets>, AS. <ets>g\'bestlic</ets>. See <er>Ghost</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; <as>as, a <ex>ghostly</ex> confessor</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Save and defend us from our <b>ghostly</b> enemies. <i>Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>One of the <b>gostly</b> children of St. Jerome. <i>Jer. Taylor.</i></blockquote>