Ghost
Ghost (gōst) , noun
[Old English gast, gost, soul, spirit, Anglo-Saxon gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to Old Saxon gēst spirit, soul, Dutch geest, German geist, and prob. to English gaze, ghastly.]
1.
The spirit; the soul of man. [Obsolete]
Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
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.
I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost.
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.
4.
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
And he gave up the ghost full softly.
Jacob... yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people
Collocations (3)
Ghost moth (Zoology) , 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 (Theology) , the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theology) the third person in the Trinity.
To give up the ghost or To yield up the ghost , to die; to expire.
Ghost , intransitive verb
To die; to expire. [Obsolete] — Sir P. Sidney
Ghost , transitive verb
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare