'Ghost moth' definitions:

Definition of 'Ghost moth'

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  • 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]