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v. i. To die; to expire. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the
Ghost-dance, or
Messiah,
religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Without life or spirit. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a ghost; ghastly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ghostly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gāstlic. See Ghost. ] 1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor. [ 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 ]

adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ghost lore. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. To write (a book, article, speech, etc.) for someone else; -- the written material appears under the name of the person for whom it was written.
Syn. -- ghost. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone else. [ WordNet 1.5 ]