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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ghost \Ghost\, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS g[=a]st 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} (Zo["o]l.), 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ghost \Ghost\, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ghost \Ghost\, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] --Shak. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: ghost n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: {shade}, {spook}, {wraith}, {specter}, {spectre}] 2: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else [syn: {ghostwriter}] 3: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person 4: a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [syn: {touch}, {trace}] v 1: move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "She is haunted by her fear of illness" [syn: {haunt}, {obsess}] 3: write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [syn: {ghostwrite}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: ghost(Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on {IRC} and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated (properly or often improperly) but the server (or the network at large) believes the connection is still active and belongs to a real user. Compare {clonebot}. (1997-04-07) From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Ghost an old Saxon word equivalent to soul or spirit. It is the translation of the Hebrew _nephesh_ and the Greek _pneuma_, both meaning "breath," "life," "spirit," the "living principle" (Job 11:20; Jer. 15:9; Matt. 27:50; John 19:30). The expression "to give up the ghost" means to die (Lam. 1:19; Gen. 25:17; 35:29; 49:33; Job 3:11). (See HOLY {GHOST}.) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: GHOST Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB) From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: 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.
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