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ghost
(mass) | ghost
- prízak |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,démon n: Zdeněk Brož |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,duch n: |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,přízrak n: Zdeněk Brož |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,strašidlo Zdeněk Brož |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,zjevení n: Zdeněk Brož |
Ghost
(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.]
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1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
--Spenser.
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2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a
specter.
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The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak.
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I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge.
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3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a
phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the
ghost of an idea.
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Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor. --Poe.
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4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
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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.
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And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer.
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Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people. --Gen. xlix.
33.
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Ghost
(gcide) | Ghost \Ghost\, v. i.
To die; to expire. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.
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Ghost
(gcide) | Ghost \Ghost\, v. t.
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.]
--Shak.
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ghost
(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] |
ghost
(foldoc) | ghost
(Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRC
and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated
(properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the
network at large) believes the connection is still active and
belongs to a real user.
Compare clonebot.
(1997-04-07)
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ghost
(vera) | GHOST
Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)
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ghost
(devil) | GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
He saw a ghost.
It occupied -- that dismal thing! --
The path that he was following.
Before he'd time to stop and fly,
An earthquake trifled with the eye
That saw a ghost.
He fell as fall the early good;
Unmoved that awful vision stood.
The stars that danced before his ken
He wildly brushed away, and then
He saw a post.
Jared Macphester
Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions
somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much
afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such
tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of
my own experience.
There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost
never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his
habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not
only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is
nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile
fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability,
what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the
apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost
in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and
get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
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ghost
(mass) | ghost
- prízak |
a ghost of a chance
(encz) | a ghost of a chance,mizivá šance Zdeněk Brož |
ghost
(encz) | ghost,démon n: Zdeněk Brožghost,duch n: ghost,přízrak n: Zdeněk Brožghost,strašidlo Zdeněk Brožghost,zjevení n: Zdeněk Brož |
ghost dance
(encz) | ghost dance, n: |
ghost gum
(encz) | ghost gum, n: |
ghost town
(encz) | ghost town,město duchů opuštěné, neobydlené město web |
ghost weed
(encz) | ghost weed, n: |
ghost word
(encz) | ghost word, n: |
ghostfish
(encz) | ghostfish, n: |
ghostlike
(encz) | ghostlike,přízračný adj: Zdeněk Brožghostlike,strašidelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ghostliness
(encz) | ghostliness, n: |
ghostly
(encz) | ghostly,strašidelný adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ghosts
(encz) | ghosts,duchové adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ghostwrite
(encz) | ghostwrite, v: |
ghostwriter
(encz) | ghostwriter, n: |
give up the ghost
(encz) | give up the ghost,házet flintu do žita [id.] Pino |
give-up the ghost
(encz) | give-up the ghost, v: |
holy ghost
(encz) | Holy Ghost,Duch svatý n: [náb.] PetrV |
yield up the ghost
(encz) | yield up the ghost,vypustit duši [fráz.] tatayield up the ghost,zemřít [fráz.] tata |
Ghost dance
(gcide) | Ghost dance \Ghost dance\
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.
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Ghost moth
(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.]
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1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
--Spenser.
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2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a
specter.
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The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak.
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I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge.
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3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a
phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the
ghost of an idea.
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Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor. --Poe.
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4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
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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.
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And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer.
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Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people. --Gen. xlix.
33.
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ghost vampire
(gcide) | False \False\, a. [Compar. Falser; superl. Falsest.] [L.
falsus, p. p. of fallere to deceive; cf. OF. faus, fals, F.
faux, and AS. fals fraud. See Fail, Fall.]
1. Uttering falsehood; unveracious; given to deceit;
dishnest; as, a false witness.
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2. Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance,
vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous; perfidious; as, a false
friend, lover, or subject; false to promises.
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I to myself was false, ere thou to me. --Milton.
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3. Not according with truth or reality; not true; fitted or
likely to deceive or disappoint; as, a false statement.
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4. Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive;
counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty;
false colors; false jewelry.
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False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
--Shak.
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5. Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous; as,
a false claim; a false conclusion; a false construction in
grammar.
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Whose false foundation waves have swept away.
--Spenser.
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6. Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which
are temporary or supplemental.
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7. (Mus.) Not in tune.
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False arch (Arch.), a member having the appearance of an
arch, though not of arch construction.
False attic, an architectural erection above the main
cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or
inclosing rooms.
False bearing, any bearing which is not directly upon a
vertical support; thus, the weight carried by a corbel has
a false bearing.
False cadence, an imperfect or interrupted cadence.
False conception (Med.), an abnormal conception in which a
mole, or misshapen fleshy mass, is produced instead of a
properly organized fetus.
False croup (Med.), a spasmodic affection of the larynx
attended with the symptoms of membranous croup, but
unassociated with the deposit of a fibrinous membrane.
False door or False window (Arch.), the representation of
a door or window, inserted to complete a series of doors
or windows or to give symmetry.
False fire, a combustible carried by vessels of war,
chiefly for signaling, but sometimes burned for the
purpose of deceiving an enemy; also, a light on shore for
decoying a vessel to destruction.
False galena. See Blende.
False imprisonment (Law), the arrest and imprisonment of a
person without warrant or cause, or contrary to law; or
the unlawful detaining of a person in custody.
False keel (Naut.), the timber below the main keel, used to
serve both as a protection and to increase the shio's
lateral resistance.
False key, a picklock.
False leg. (Zool.) See Proleg.
False membrane (Med.), the fibrinous deposit formed in
croup and diphtheria, and resembling in appearance an
animal membrane.
False papers (Naut.), documents carried by a ship giving
false representations respecting her cargo, destination,
etc., for the purpose of deceiving.
False passage (Surg.), an unnatural passage leading off
from a natural canal, such as the urethra, and produced
usually by the unskillful introduction of instruments.
False personation (Law), the intentional false assumption
of the name and personality of another.
False pretenses (Law), false representations concerning
past or present facts and events, for the purpose of
defrauding another.
False rail (Naut.), a thin piece of timber placed on top of
the head rail to strengthen it.
False relation (Mus.), a progression in harmony, in which a
certain note in a chord appears in the next chord prefixed
by a flat or sharp.
False return (Law), an untrue return made to a process by
the officer to whom it was delivered for execution.
False ribs (Anat.), the asternal rebs, of which there are
five pairs in man.
False roof (Arch.), the space between the upper ceiling and
the roof. --Oxford Gloss.
False token, a false mark or other symbol, used for
fraudulent purposes.
False scorpion (Zool.), any arachnid of the genus
Chelifer. See Book scorpion.
False tack (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling
away again on the same tack.
False vampire (Zool.), the Vampyrus spectrum of South
America, formerly erroneously supposed to have
blood-sucking habits; -- called also vampire, and {ghost
vampire}. The genuine blood-sucking bats belong to the
genera Desmodus and Diphylla. See Vampire.
False window. (Arch.) See False door, above.
False wing. (Zool.) See Alula, and Bastard wing, under
Bastard.
False works (Civil Engin.), construction works to
facilitate the erection of the main work, as scaffolding,
bridge centering, etc.
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Ghost-dance
(gcide) | Ghost dance \Ghost dance\
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.
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Ghostfish
(gcide) | Ghostfish \Ghost"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
[1913 Webster]Wrymouth \Wry"mouth`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes
of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially {Cryptacanthodes
maculatus} of the American coast. A whitish variety is called
ghostfish.
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ghostfish
(gcide) | Ghostfish \Ghost"fish`\, n. (Zool.)
A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
[1913 Webster]Wrymouth \Wry"mouth`\, n. (Zool.)
Any one of several species of large, elongated, marine fishes
of the genus Cryptacanthodes, especially {Cryptacanthodes
maculatus} of the American coast. A whitish variety is called
ghostfish.
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Ghostless
(gcide) | Ghostless \Ghost"less\, a.
Without life or spirit. [R.]
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Ghostlike
(gcide) | Ghostlike \Ghost"like`\, a.
Like a ghost; ghastly.
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Ghostliness
(gcide) | Ghostliness \Ghost"li*ness\, n.
The quality of being ghostly.
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Ghostly
(gcide) | Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[=a]stlic.
See Ghost.]
1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual;
as, a ghostly confessor.
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Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book
of Common
Prayer [Ch. of
Eng. ]
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One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer.
Taylor.
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2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside.
[1913 Webster]Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, adv.
Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer.
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Ghostology
(gcide) | Ghostology \Ghost*ol"o*gy\, n.
Ghost lore. [R.]
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It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a
thing of ghostology and witchcraft. --Hawthorne.
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ghost-write
(gcide) | ghostwrite \ghost"write`\, ghost-write \ghost"-write`\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.
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ghostwrite
(gcide) | ghostwrite \ghost"write`\, ghost-write \ghost"-write`\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.
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ghost-writer
(gcide) | ghostwriter \ghost"writ`er\, ghost-writer \ghost"-writ`er\n.
One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone
else.
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ghostwriter
(gcide) | ghostwriter \ghost"writ`er\, ghost-writer \ghost"-writ`er\n.
One who ghost-writes (a book, article, etc.) for someone
else.
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Holy Ghost
(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.]
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1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
--Spenser.
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2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a
specter.
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The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak.
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I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge.
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3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a
phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the
ghost of an idea.
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Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor. --Poe.
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4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
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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.
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And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer.
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Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people. --Gen. xlix.
33.
[1913 Webster]Holy \Ho"ly\, a. [Compar. Holier; superl. Holiest.] [OE.
holi, hali, AS. h[=a]lig, fr. h[ae]l health, salvation,
happiness, fr. h[=a]l whole, well; akin to OS. h?lag, D. & G.
heilig, OHG. heilac, Dan. hellig, Sw. helig, Icel. heilagr.
See Whole, and cf. Halibut, Halidom, Hallow,
Hollyhock.]
1. Set apart to the service or worship of God; hallowed;
sacred; reserved from profane or common use; holy vessels;
a holy priesthood. "Holy rites and solemn feasts."
--Milton.
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2. Spiritually whole or sound; of unimpaired innocence and
virtue; free from sinful affections; pure in heart; godly;
pious; irreproachable; guiltless; acceptable to God.
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Now through her round of holy thought
The Church our annual steps has brought. --Keble.
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Holy Alliance (Hist.), a league ostensibly for conserving
religion, justice, and peace in Europe, but really for
repressing popular tendencies toward constitutional
government, entered into by Alexander I. of Russia,
Francis I. of Austria, and Frederic William III. of
Prussia, at Paris, on the 26th of September, 1815, and
subsequently joined by all the sovereigns of Europe,
except the pope and the king of England.
Holy bark. See Cascara sagrada.
Holy Communion. See Eucharist.
Holy family (Art), a picture in which the infant Christ,
his parents, and others of his family are represented.
Holy Father, a title of the pope.
Holy Ghost (Theol.), the third person of the Trinity; the
Comforter; the Paraclete.
Holy Grail. See Grail.
Holy grass (Bot.), a sweet-scented grass ({Hierochloa
borealis} and Hierochloa alpina). In the north of Europe
it was formerly strewed before church doors on saints'
days; whence the name. It is common in the northern and
western parts of the United States. Called also {vanilla
grass} or Seneca grass.
Holy Innocents' day, Childermas day.
Holy Land, Palestine, the birthplace of Christianity.
Holy office, the Inquisition.
Holy of holies (Script.), the innermost apartment of the
Jewish tabernacle or temple, where the ark was kept, and
where no person entered, except the high priest once a
year.
Holy One.
(a) The Supreme Being; -- so called by way of emphasis. "
The Holy One of Israel." --Is. xliii. 14.
(b) One separated to the service of God.
Holy orders. See Order.
Holy rood, the cross or crucifix, particularly one placed,
in churches. over the entrance to the chancel.
Holy rope, a plant, the hemp agrimony.
Holy Saturday (Eccl.), the Saturday immediately preceding
the festival of Easter; the vigil of Easter.
Holy Spirit, same as Holy Ghost (above).
Holy Spirit plant. See Dove plant.
Holy thistle (Bot.), the blessed thistle. See under
Thistle.
Holy Thursday. (Eccl.)
(a) (Episcopal Ch.) Ascension day.
(b) (R. C. Ch.) The Thursday in Holy Week; Maundy
Thursday.
Holy war, a crusade; an expedition carried on by Christians
against the Saracens in the Holy Land, in the eleventh,
twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, for the possession of
the holy places.
Holy water (Gr. & R. C. Churches), water which has been
blessed by the priest for sacred purposes.
Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the
entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water.
Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the
passion of our Savior is commemorated.
Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy writ."
--Wordsworth.
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Procession of the Holy Ghost
(gcide) | Procession \Pro*ces"sion\, n. [F., fr. L. processio. See
Proceed.]
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1. The act of proceeding, moving on, advancing, or issuing;
regular, orderly, or ceremonious progress; continuous
course. --Bp. Pearson.
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That the procession of their life might be
More equable, majestic, pure, and free. --Trench.
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2. That which is moving onward in an orderly, stately, or
solemn manner; a train of persons advancing in order; a
ceremonious train; a retinue; as, a procession of
mourners; the Lord Mayor's procession.
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Here comes the townsmen on procession. --Shak.
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3. (Eccl.) An orderly and ceremonial progress of persons,
either from the sacristy to the choir, or from the choir
around the church, within or without. --Shipley.
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4. pl. (Eccl.) An old term for litanies which were said in
procession and not kneeling. --Shipley.
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Procession of the Holy Ghost, a theological term applied to
the relation of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son,
the Eastern Church affirming that the Spirit proceeds from
the Father only, and the Western Church that the Spirit
proceeds from the Father and the Son. --Shipley.
Procession week, a name for Rogation week, when processions
were made; Cross-week. --Shipley.
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To give up the ghost
(gcide) | Give \Give\ (g[i^]v), v. t. [imp. Gave (g[=a]v); p. p. Given
(g[i^]v"'n); p. pr. & vb. n. Giving.] [OE. given, yiven,
yeven, AS. gifan, giefan; akin to D. geven, OS. ge[eth]an,
OHG. geban, G. geben, Icel. gefa, Sw. gifva, Dan. give, Goth.
giban. Cf. Gift, n.]
1. To bestow without receiving a return; to confer without
compensation; to impart, as a possession; to grant, as
authority or permission; to yield up or allow.
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For generous lords had rather give than pay.
--Young.
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2. To yield possesion of; to deliver over, as property, in
exchange for something; to pay; as, we give the value of
what we buy.
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What shall a man give in exchange for his soul ?
--Matt. xvi.
26.
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3. To yield; to furnish; to produce; to emit; as, flint and
steel give sparks.
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4. To communicate or announce, as advice, tidings, etc.; to
pronounce; to render or utter, as an opinion, a judgment,
a sentence, a shout, etc.
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5. To grant power or license to; to permit; to allow; to
license; to commission.
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It is given me once again to behold my friend.
--Rowe.
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Then give thy friend to shed the sacred wine.
--Pope.
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6. To exhibit as a product or result; to produce; to show;
as, the number of men, divided by the number of ships,
gives four hundred to each ship.
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7. To devote; to apply; used reflexively, to devote or apply
one's self; as, the soldiers give themselves to plunder;
also in this sense used very frequently in the past
participle; as, the people are given to luxury and
pleasure; the youth is given to study.
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8. (Logic & Math.) To set forth as a known quantity or a
known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; --
used principally in the passive form given.
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9. To allow or admit by way of supposition.
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I give not heaven for lost. --Mlton.
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10. To attribute; to assign; to adjudge.
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I don't wonder at people's giving him to me as a
lover. --Sheridan.
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11. To excite or cause to exist, as a sensation; as, to give
offense; to give pleasure or pain.
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12. To pledge; as, to give one's word.
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13. To cause; to make; -- with the infinitive; as, to give
one to understand, to know, etc.
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But there the duke was given to understand
That in a gondola were seen together
Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica. --Shak.
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14. To afford a view of; as, his window gave the park.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
To give away, to make over to another; to transfer.
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Whatsoever we employ in charitable uses during our
lives, is given away from ourselves. --Atterbury.
To give back, to return; to restore. --Atterbury.
To give the bag, to cheat. [Obs.]
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I fear our ears have given us the bag. --J. Webster.
To give birth to.
(a) To bear or bring forth, as a child.
(b) To originate; to give existence to, as an enterprise,
idea.
To give chase, to pursue.
To give ear to. See under Ear.
To give forth, to give out; to publish; to tell. --Hayward.
To give ground. See under Ground, n.
To give the hand, to pledge friendship or faith.
To give the hand of, to espouse; to bestow in marriage.
To give the head. See under Head, n.
To give in.
(a) To abate; to deduct.
(b) To declare; to make known; to announce; to tender;
as, to give in one's adhesion to a party.
To give the lie to (a person), to tell (him) that he lies.
To give line. See under Line.
To give off, to emit, as steam, vapor, odor, etc.
To give one's self away, to make an inconsiderate surrender
of one's cause, an unintentional disclosure of one's
purposes, or the like. [Colloq.]
To give out.
(a) To utter publicly; to report; to announce or declare.
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One that gives out himself Prince Florizel.
--Shak.
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Give out you are of Epidamnum. --Shak.
(b) To send out; to emit; to distribute; as, a substance
gives out steam or odors.
To give over.
(a) To yield completely; to quit; to abandon.
(b) To despair of.
(c) To addict, resign, or apply (one's self).
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The Babylonians had given themselves over to
all manner of vice. --Grew.
To give place, to withdraw; to yield one's claim.
To give points.
(a) In games of skill, to equalize chances by conceding a
certain advantage; to allow a handicap.
(b) To give useful suggestions. [Colloq.]
To give rein. See under Rein, n.
To give the sack. Same as To give the bag.
To give and take.
(a) To average gains and losses.
(b) To exchange freely, as blows, sarcasms, etc.
To give time
(Law), to accord extension or forbearance to a debtor.
--Abbott.
To give the time of day, to salute one with the compliment
appropriate to the hour, as "good morning." "good
evening", etc.
To give tongue, in hunter's phrase, to bark; -- said of
dogs.
To give up.
(a) To abandon; to surrender. "Don't give up the ship."
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He has . . . given up
For certain drops of salt, your city Rome.
--Shak.
(b) To make public; to reveal.
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I'll not state them
By giving up their characters. --Beau. & Fl.
(c) (Used also reflexively.)
To give up the ghost. See under Ghost.
To give one's self up, to abandon hope; to despair; to
surrender one's self.
To give way.
(a) To withdraw; to give place.
(b) To yield to force or pressure; as, the scaffolding
gave way.
(c) (Naut.) To begin to row; or to row with increased
energy.
(d) (Stock Exchange). To depreciate or decline in value;
as, railroad securities gave way two per cent.
To give way together, to row in time; to keep stroke.
Syn: To Give, Confer, Grant.
Usage: To give is the generic word, embracing all the rest.
To confer was originally used of persons in power, who
gave permanent grants or privileges; as, to confer the
order of knighthood; and hence it still denotes the
giving of something which might have been withheld;
as, to confer a favor. To grant is to give in answer
to a petition or request, or to one who is in some way
dependent or inferior.
[1913 Webster]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.]
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1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
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Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament.
--Spenser.
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2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased
person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a
specter.
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The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak.
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I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge.
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3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a
phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the
ghost of an idea.
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Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the
floor. --Poe.
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4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the
surfaces of one or more lenses.
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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.
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And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer.
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Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered
unto his people. --Gen. xlix.
33.
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To yield the ghost
(gcide) | Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold;
p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, [yogh]elden,
[yogh]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make
an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to
cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore,
make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up,
Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g[aum]lla to be worth, g[aum]lda
to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld,
Guild.]
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1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as
payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to
pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
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To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer.
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When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv.
12.
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2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines
yield nectar." --Milton.
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[He] makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
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The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their
children. --Job xxiv. 5.
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3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to
make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to
surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
[1913 Webster]
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
--Shak.
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Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
--Milton.
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4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
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I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton.
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5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
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6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't. --Shak.
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God yield thee, and God thank ye. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, {To yield
the ghost}, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost,
or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to
To give up the ghost.
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One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble.
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To yield the ghost up
(gcide) | Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold;
p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, [yogh]elden,
[yogh]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make
an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to
cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore,
make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up,
Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g[aum]lla to be worth, g[aum]lda
to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld,
Guild.]
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1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as
payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to
pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
[1913 Webster]
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv.
12.
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2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines
yield nectar." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
[He] makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their
children. --Job xxiv. 5.
[1913 Webster]
3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to
make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to
surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
[1913 Webster]
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
[1913 Webster]
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton.
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5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
[1913 Webster]
6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
God yield thee, and God thank ye. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, {To yield
the ghost}, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost,
or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to
To give up the ghost.
[1913 Webster]
One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble.
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To yield up the ghost
(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]Yield \Yield\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Yielded; obs. p. p. Yold;
p. pr. & vb. n. Yielding.] [OE. yelden, [yogh]elden,
[yogh]ilden, AS. gieldan, gildan, to pay, give, restore, make
an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to
cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore,
make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up,
Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. g[aum]lla to be worth, g[aum]lda
to pay, Goth. gildan in fragildan, usgildan. Cf. 1st Geld,
Guild.]
[1913 Webster]
1. To give in return for labor expended; to produce, as
payment or interest on what is expended or invested; to
pay; as, money at interest yields six or seven per cent.
[1913 Webster]
To yelde Jesu Christ his proper rent. --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not
henceforth yield unto thee her strength. --Gen. iv.
12.
[1913 Webster]
2. To furnish; to afford; to render; to give forth. "Vines
yield nectar." --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
[He] makes milch kine yield blood. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The wilderness yieldeth food for them and for their
children. --Job xxiv. 5.
[1913 Webster]
3. To give up, as something that is claimed or demanded; to
make over to one who has a claim or right; to resign; to
surrender; to relinquish; as a city, an opinion, etc.
[1913 Webster]
And, force perforce, I'll make him yield the crown.
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]
Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame.
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
4. To admit to be true; to concede; to allow.
[1913 Webster]
I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]
5. To permit; to grant; as, to yield passage.
[1913 Webster]
6. To give a reward to; to bless. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]
Tend me to-night two hours, I ask no more,
And the gods yield you for 't. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
God yield thee, and God thank ye. --Beau. & Fl.
[1913 Webster]
To yield the breath, To yield the breath up, {To yield
the ghost}, To yield the ghost up, To yield up the ghost,
or To yield the life, to die; to expire; -- similar to
To give up the ghost.
[1913 Webster]
One calmly yields his willing breath. --Keble.
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Unghostly
(gcide) | Unghostly \Unghostly\
See ghostly. |
ghost
(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] |
ghost dance
(wn) | ghost dance
n 1: a religious dance of Native Americans looking for
communication with the dead |
ghost gum
(wn) | ghost gum
n 1: small to medium-sized tree of Australia and Tasmania having
smooth white to light-grey bark shedding in patches or
strips [syn: snow gum, ghost gum, white ash,
Eucalyptus coriacea, Eucalyptus pauciflora] |
ghost town
(wn) | ghost town
n 1: a deserted settlement (especially in western United States) |
ghost weed
(wn) | ghost weed
n 1: annual spurge of western United States having showy white-
bracted flower clusters and very poisonous milk [syn:
snow-on-the-mountain, snow-in-summer, ghost weed,
Euphorbia marginata] |
ghost word
(wn) | ghost word
n 1: a word form that has entered the language through the
perpetuation of an error |
ghostfish
(wn) | ghostfish
n 1: eellike Atlantic bottom fish with large almost vertical
mouth [syn: wrymouth, ghostfish, {Cryptacanthodes
maculatus}] |
ghostlike
(wn) | ghostlike
adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly
face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room";
"spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
[syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly,
phantasmal, spectral, spiritual] |
ghostliness
(wn) | ghostliness
n 1: strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring
fear [syn: eeriness, ghostliness] |
ghostly
(wn) | ghostly
adj 1: resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly
face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room";
"spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
[syn: apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly,
phantasmal, spectral, spiritual] |
ghostwrite
(wn) | ghostwrite
v 1: write for someone else; "How many books have you
ghostwritten so far?" [syn: ghost, ghostwrite] |
ghostwriter
(wn) | ghostwriter
n 1: a writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
[syn: ghostwriter, ghost] |
give-up the ghost
(wn) | give-up the ghost
v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and
functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient
went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age
of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, {cash in
one's chips}, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant:
be born] |
holy ghost
(wn) | Holy Ghost
n 1: the third person in the Trinity; Jesus promised the
Apostles that he would send the Holy Spirit after his
Crucifixion and Resurrection; it came on Pentecost [syn:
Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, Paraclete] |
ghost
(foldoc) | ghost
(Or "zombie") The image of a user's session on IRC
and similar systems, left when the session has been terminated
(properly or, often, improperly) but the server (or the
network at large) believes the connection is still active and
belongs to a real user.
Compare clonebot.
(1997-04-07)
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ghostscript
(foldoc) | Ghostscript
The GNU interpreter for PostScript and
PDF, with previewers for serval systems and many fonts.
Ghostscript was originally written by L. Peter Deutsch
of Aladdin Enterprises. The first
public release was v1.0 on 1988-08-11.
GNU Home (http://gnu.org/software/ghostscript/).
News & community (http://ghostscript.com/).
(2003-09-24)
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ghostview
(foldoc) | ghostview
An X Window System interface to the ghostscript
PostScript interpreter.
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ghost
(vera) | GHOST
Goal Hierarchy and Objectives Structuring Technique (TUB)
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ghost
(devil) | GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear.
He saw a ghost.
It occupied -- that dismal thing! --
The path that he was following.
Before he'd time to stop and fly,
An earthquake trifled with the eye
That saw a ghost.
He fell as fall the early good;
Unmoved that awful vision stood.
The stars that danced before his ken
He wildly brushed away, and then
He saw a post.
Jared Macphester
Accounting for the uncommon behavior of ghosts, Heine mentions
somebody's ingenious theory to the effect that they are as much
afraid of us as we of them. Not quite, if I may judge from such
tables of comparative speed as I am able to compile from memories of
my own experience.
There is one insuperable obstacle to a belief in ghosts. A ghost
never comes naked: he appears either in a winding-sheet or "in his
habit as he lived." To believe in him, then, is to believe that not
only have the dead the power to make themselves visible after there is
nothing left of them, but that the same power inheres in textile
fabrics. Supposing the products of the loom to have this ability,
what object would they have in exercising it? And why does not the
apparition of a suit of clothes sometimes walk abroad without a ghost
in it? These be riddles of significance. They reach away down and
get a convulsive grip on the very tap-root of this flourishing faith.
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