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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Ghost \Ghost\ (g[=o]st), n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[=a]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g[=e]st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.] [1913 Webster] 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] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Ghost \Ghost\, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Ghost \Ghost\, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: ghost n 1: a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past" [syn: {ghost}, {shade}, {spook}, {wraith}, {specter}, {spectre}] 2: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else [syn: {ghostwriter}, {ghost}] 3: the visible disembodied soul of a dead person 4: a suggestion of some quality; "there was a touch of sarcasm in his tone"; "he detected a ghost of a smile on her face" [syn: {touch}, {trace}, {ghost}] v 1: move like a ghost; "The masked men ghosted across the moonlit yard" 2: haunt like a ghost; pursue; "Fear of illness haunts her" [syn: {haunt}, {obsess}, {ghost}] 3: write for someone else; "How many books have you ghostwritten so far?" [syn: {ghost}, {ghostwrite}] From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (June 2013) [vera]: GHOST Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)