1. The spirit; the soul of man. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. [ 1913 Webster ]

The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And he gave up the ghost full softly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Gen. xlix. 33. [ 1913 Webster ]

Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. Book of Common Prayer [ Ch. of Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside. [ 1913 Webster ]

It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

A host so great as covered all the field. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any great number or multitude; a throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Luke ii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

All at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Your hostages I have, so have you mine;
And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed; adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. acts of overt warfare.
Syn. -- belligerency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities [ 1913 Webster ]

He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A muster or review. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Railroad) The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stable for horses. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]