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.
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