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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. — Togive up or yield upthe 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.