Ghost

9 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ghost \Ghost\ (g[=o]st), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS.
     g[=a]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g[=e]st spirit,
     soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
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     1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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              Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
                                                    --Spenser.
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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.
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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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     3. 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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     4. 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.                      --Gen. xlix.
                                                    33.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ghost \Ghost\, v. i.
     To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Ghost \Ghost\, v. t.
     To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.]
     --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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; "Fear of illness haunts her"
          [syn: {haunt}, {obsess}]
       3: write for someone else; "How many books have you
          ghostwritten so far?" [syn: {ghostwrite}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  268 Moby Thesaurus words for "ghost":
     Doppelganger, Dracula, Frankenstein, Masan, Wolf-man, act for,
     advertising writer, agent, alternate, alternative, analogy,
     annalist, apparition, appearance, art critic, astral,
     astral spirit, author, authoress, backup, banshee, belletrist,
     bibliographer, black spot, bloom, blooping, bogey, bogeyman,
     boggart, bugaboo, bugbear, change, change places with, changeling,
     coauthor, collaborate, collaborator, columnist, comparison,
     compiler, compose, composer, control, copy, copywriter,
     counterfeit, creative writer, critic, crowd out, cut out,
     dance critic, dash off, definition, demon, departed spirit, deputy,
     devil, diarist, disembodied spirit, displace, double, double for,
     drama critic, dramatist, drift, dummy, duppy, dybbuk, editorialize,
     eidolon, encyclopedist, equal, equivalent, ersatz, essayist,
     exchange, fake, fee-faw-fum, fill in for, fill-in, flare, float,
     foot, form, formulate, free lance, free-lance, free-lance writer,
     frightener, fringe area, ghostwrite, ghostwriter, ghoul, glide,
     glimmer, granulation, grateful dead, grid, guide, hallucination,
     hant, hard shadow, haunt, hint, hobgoblin, holy terror, horror,
     humorist, idolum, illusion, image, imitation, immateriality,
     incorporeal, incorporeal being, incorporeity, incubus, indite,
     inditer, knock off, knock out, larva, lemures, literary artist,
     literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur,
     locum tenens, logographer, magazine writer, makeshift,
     man of letters, manes, materialization, metaphor, metonymy,
     monographer, monster, multiple image, music critic, newspaperman,
     next best thing, nightmare, noise, novelettist, novelist, novelize,
     ogre, ogress, oni, pamphleteer, penwoman, personnel, phantasm,
     phantasma, phantom, phony, picture, picture noise, picture shifts,
     pinch hitter, pinch-hit, plow the deep, poet, poltergeist, prepare,
     presence, produce, prose writer, proxy, rain, relief, relieve,
     replace, replacement, represent, representative, reserves,
     revenant, reviewer, ride, ride the sea, ringer, rolling, run, sail,
     scanning pattern, scarebabe, scarecrow, scarer, scenario writer,
     scenarist, scenarize, scintilla, scintillation, scribe,
     scriptwriter, scud, second string, secondary, shade, shading,
     shadow, shape, shoot, short-story writer, shrouded spirit, sign,
     skim, slip, snow, snowstorm, spares, specter, spectral ghost,
     spell, spell off, spirit, spook, sprite, stand in for, stand-in,
     storyteller, sub, subrogate, substituent, substitute,
     substitute for, substitution, succedaneum, succeed, succubus,
     suggestion, supersede, superseder, supplant, supplanter, surrogate,
     swap places with, symbol, synecdoche, technical writer, terror,
     theophany, third string, throw on paper, token, trace, understudy,
     understudy for, unsubstantiality, utility player, vampire, vicar,
     vice-president, vice-regent, vision, walk the waters,
     walking dead man, wandering soul, werewolf, word painter,
     wordsmith, wraith, write, writer, zombie
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  GHOST
       Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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 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.