Ghost (gōst), 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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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 (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. -- 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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Ghost, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.
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