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   Ghost , n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
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   The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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   Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
   Spenser.
   
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   The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
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   The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose.
   Shak.
   
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   I thought that I had died in sleep,
   And was a blessed ghost.
   Coleridge.
   
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   Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
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   Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
   Poe.
   
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   A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
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   Ghost moth (Zool.), 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 the ghost or To yield up the ghost, to die; to expire.
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   And he gave up the ghost full softly.
   Chaucer.
   
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   Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people
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   Gen. xlix. 33.
   
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   Ghost, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.]
   Sir P. Sidney.
   
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   Ghost, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.]
   Shak.
   
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