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*1. The [[soul]] or [[spirit]], as the principle of life; also ghost of life. Obs. exc. in phrase to give up (earlier to give, give away, yield up) the (one's) ghost: to [[breath]]e one's last, expire, die.
*2. Used as the conventional equivalent for L. spiritus, in [[context]]s where the [[sense]] is breath or a blast. Obs.
*3. a. The spirit, or immaterial part of man, as distinct from the [[body]] or [[material]] part; the seat of [[feeling]], [[thought]], and moral action. Also, in [[New Testament]] language, the SPIRIT or higher moral [[nature]] of man; opposed to flesh. Obs. exc. in nonce-uses.
::b. Philos. the ghost in the [[machine]]: Gilbert Ryle's name for the [[mind]] viewed as separate from the body.
*4. A [[person]]. Cf. the similar use of SOUL, SPIRIT.
*5. a. An incorporeal [[being]]; a spirit. local ghost = L. genius loci. Obs.
::b. A good spirit, an [[angel]]. Obs.
::c. An [[evil]] spirit. the loath, foul, wicked ghost: the Devil. Obs.
*6. Formerly used in the sense of SPIRIT (of God). Now only in HOLY GHOST, the usual designation of the Third Person of the [[Trinity]] in liturgical and dogmatic [[language]]. <center>‘Thy Ghost’ for ‘Thy Holy Ghost’</center>
*7. The soul of a deceased person, spoken of as inhabiting the unseen world. In later use only = MANES; sometimes pl. Obs.
*8. a. The soul of a deceased person, spoken of as appearing in a visible form, or otherwise manifesting its [[presence]], to the living. (Now the prevailing sense.)
::b. Phrases. to lay a ghost: to cause it to cease appearing. to raise a ghost: to cause it to appear. Both also fig. the ghost walks (Theat. slang): there is [[money]] in the treasury, the salaries are forthcoming.
::c. An apparition; a [[spectre]].
*9. A corpse. Obs. (Cf. L. m{amac}nes.)
*10. In allusion to the pale, shadowy and unsubstantial appearance attributed to ghosts. a. Applied to a person in a state of extreme emaciation; ‘a [[shadow]] of his former self’.
::b. A shadowy outline or semblance, an unsubstantial image (of something); hence, a slight trace or vestige, esp. in phrase (not) the ghost of a [[chance]]. Cf. SHADOW.
::c. An impression of a signature made by folding the paper over while the ink is still wet.
*11. [[Optics]], etc. a. A name for Ramsden's eye-piece for the microscope, which is so constructed that the image formed by the objective lies below instead of above the field-glass. Obs.
::b. A bright spot or secondary image appearing in the field of a telescope, produced by some defect, temporary or permanent, in one of the lenses of the eye-piece.
::c. Photogr. = FLARE, n.1 3.
::d. Spectroscopy. A spurious spectral line produced by periodic errors in a diffraction grating.
::e. Biol. A cell wall or cell membrane, esp. of a red blood corpuscle, that has lost its protoplasmic contents; also, in extended use, a bacteriophage with an empty ‘head’.
::f. Metallurgy. A faint band on the surface of steel due to the segregation of certain of its constituents.
::g. Television. A displaced repeated image on a television screen caused by a duplicate signal travelling by a longer path.
::h. A spurious signal on a radar screen that does not correspond to a target at the indicated location.
*12. Sc. ‘A piece of dead coal, that instead of burning appears in the fire as a white lump’ (Jam.).
*13. One who secretly does artistic or literary work for another person, the latter taking the credit.
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*1. The [[soul]] or [[spirit]], as the principle of life; also ghost of life. Obs. exc. in phrase to give up (earlier to give, give away, yield up) the (one's) ghost: to [[breath]]e one's last, expire, die.
*2. Used as the conventional equivalent for L. spiritus, in [[context]]s where the [[sense]] is breath or a blast. Obs.
*3. a. The spirit, or immaterial part of man, as distinct from the [[body]] or [[material]] part; the seat of [[feeling]], [[thought]], and moral action. Also, in [[New Testament]] language, the SPIRIT or higher moral [[nature]] of man; opposed to flesh. Obs. exc. in nonce-uses.
::b. Philos. the ghost in the [[machine]]: Gilbert Ryle's name for the [[mind]] viewed as separate from the body.
*4. A [[person]]. Cf. the similar use of SOUL, SPIRIT.
*5. a. An incorporeal [[being]]; a spirit. local ghost = L. genius loci. Obs.
::b. A good spirit, an [[angel]]. Obs.
::c. An [[evil]] spirit. the loath, foul, wicked ghost: the Devil. Obs.
*6. Formerly used in the sense of SPIRIT (of God). Now only in HOLY GHOST, the usual designation of the Third Person of the [[Trinity]] in liturgical and dogmatic [[language]]. <center>‘Thy Ghost’ for ‘Thy Holy Ghost’</center>
*7. The soul of a deceased person, spoken of as inhabiting the unseen world. In later use only = MANES; sometimes pl. Obs.
*8. a. The soul of a deceased person, spoken of as appearing in a visible form, or otherwise manifesting its [[presence]], to the living. (Now the prevailing sense.)
::b. Phrases. to lay a ghost: to cause it to cease appearing. to raise a ghost: to cause it to appear. Both also fig. the ghost walks (Theat. slang): there is [[money]] in the treasury, the salaries are forthcoming.
::c. An apparition; a [[spectre]].
*9. A corpse. Obs. (Cf. L. m{amac}nes.)
*10. In allusion to the pale, shadowy and unsubstantial appearance attributed to ghosts. a. Applied to a person in a state of extreme emaciation; ‘a [[shadow]] of his former self’.
::b. A shadowy outline or semblance, an unsubstantial image (of something); hence, a slight trace or vestige, esp. in phrase (not) the ghost of a [[chance]]. Cf. SHADOW.
::c. An impression of a signature made by folding the paper over while the ink is still wet.
*11. [[Optics]], etc. a. A name for Ramsden's eye-piece for the microscope, which is so constructed that the image formed by the objective lies below instead of above the field-glass. Obs.
::b. A bright spot or secondary image appearing in the field of a telescope, produced by some defect, temporary or permanent, in one of the lenses of the eye-piece.
::c. Photogr. = FLARE, n.1 3.
::d. Spectroscopy. A spurious spectral line produced by periodic errors in a diffraction grating.
::e. Biol. A cell wall or cell membrane, esp. of a red blood corpuscle, that has lost its protoplasmic contents; also, in extended use, a bacteriophage with an empty ‘head’.
::f. Metallurgy. A faint band on the surface of steel due to the segregation of certain of its constituents.
::g. Television. A displaced repeated image on a television screen caused by a duplicate signal travelling by a longer path.
::h. A spurious signal on a radar screen that does not correspond to a target at the indicated location.
*12. Sc. ‘A piece of dead coal, that instead of burning appears in the fire as a white lump’ (Jam.).
*13. One who secretly does artistic or literary work for another person, the latter taking the credit.
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