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
(Ghost), v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost
(Ghost), v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.
Ghostfish
(Ghost"fish`) n. (Zoöl.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Ghostless
(Ghost"less), a. Without life or spirit. [R.]
Ghostlike
(Ghost"like`) a. Like a ghost; ghastly.
Ghostliness
(Ghost"li*ness), n. The quality of being ghostly.
Ghostly
(Ghost"ly), a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gastlic. See Ghost.]
1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies.
Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]
One of the gostly children of St. Jerome.
Jer. Taylor. 2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.
Ghostly
(Ghost"ly), adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.
Ghostology
(Ghost*ol"o*gy) n. Ghost lore. [R.]
It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft.
Hawthorne. Ghoul
(Ghoul) n. [Per. ghol an imaginary sylvan demon, supposed to devour men and animals: cf. Ar.
ghul, F. goule.] An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon
human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.
Ghoulish
(Ghoul"ish), a. Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.