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Ghost (medicine)


ghost


1. The spirit; the soul of man. "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.

<zoology> Ghost moth 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. 33)

Origin: OE. Gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. Gast breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. Gst spirit, soul, D. Geest, G. Geist, and prob. To E. Gaze, ghastly.

Source: Websters Dictionary