a. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_; to sew together. ] Seamless. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gāst breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gēst 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 ]

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 ]

n. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [ Written also Gnathostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. hostia sacrifice, victim, from hostire to strike. ] (R. C. Ch.) The consecrated wafer, believed to be the body of Christ, which in the Mass is offered as a sacrifice; also, the bread before consecration. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the Latin Vulgate the word was applied to the Savior as being an offering for the sins of men. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. host, ost, OF. host, ost, fr. L. hostis enemy, LL., army. See Guest, and cf. Host a landlord. ] 1. An army; a number of men gathered for war. [ 1913 Webster ]

A host so great as covered all the field. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any great number or multitude; a throng. [ 1913 Webster ]

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God. Luke ii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

All at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. host, ost, OF. hoste, oste, F. hôte, from L. hospes a stranger who is treated as a guest, he who treats another as his guest, a hostl prob. fr. hostis stranger, enemy (akin to E. guest a visitor) + potis able; akin to Skr. pati master, lord. See Host an army, Possible, and cf. Hospitable, Hotel. ] 1. One who receives or entertains another, whether gratuitously or for compensation; one from whom another receives food, lodging, or entertainment; a landlord. Chaucer. “Fair host and Earl.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time is like a fashionable host,
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) Any animal or plant affording lodgment or subsistence to a parasitic or commensal organism. Thus a tree is a host of an air plant growing upon it. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To give entertainment to. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To lodge at an inn; to take up entertainment. [ Obs. ] “Where you shall host.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A genus of robust East Asian clump-forming perennial herbs having racemose flowers: plantain lilies; sometimes placed in the family Hostaceae.
Syn. -- genus Hosta, Funka, genus Funka. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

prop. n. One of many families or subfamilies into which some classification systems subdivide the Liliaceae but not widely accepted; includes genus Hosta.
Syn. -- family Hostaceae, Funkaceae, family Funkaceae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. hostage, OF. hostage, ostage, F. ôtage, LL. hostaticus, ostaticum, for hospitaticum, fr. L. hospes guest, host. The first meaning is, the state of a guest, hospitality; hence, the state of a hostage (treated as a guest); and both these meanings occur in Old French. See Host a landlord. ] A person given as a pledge or security for the performance of the conditions of a treaty or stipulations of any kind, on the performance of which the person is to be released. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your hostages I have, so have you mine;
And we shall talk before we fight. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hostel, ostel, OF. hostel, ostel, LL. hospitale, hospitalis, fr. L. hospitalis. See Hospital, and cf. Hotel. ] 1. An inn. [ Archaic ] Poe. [ 1913 Webster ]

So pass I hostel, hall, and grange. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small, unendowed college in Oxford or Cambridge. [ Obs. ] Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Hostel, and cf. Hostler. ] 1. The keeper of a hostel or inn. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A student in a hostel, or small unendowed collede in Oxford or Cambridge. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hostelrie, hostelrye, ostelrie, OF. hostelerie, fr. hostel. See Hostel. ] An inn; a lodging house. [ Archaic ] Chaucer. “Homely brought up in a rude hostelry.” B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come with me to the hostelry. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hostesse, ostesse. See Host a landlord. ] 1. A female host; a woman who hospitably entertains guests at her house. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A woman who entertains guests for compensation; a female innkeeper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character, personality, or office of a hostess. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. See 1st Host. ] The consecrated wafer; the host. [ Obs. ] Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. hostilis, from hostis enemy: cf. F. hostile. See Host an army. ] Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfriendly; as, a hostile force; hostile intentions; a hostile country; hostile to a sudden change.

Syn. -- Warlike; inimical; unfriendly; antagonistic; opposed; adverse; opposite; contrary; repugnant. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An enemy; esp., an American Indian in arms against the whites; -- commonly in the plural. [ Colloq. ] P. H. Sheridan. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a hostile manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) the purchase of a controlling interest in a publicly-traded company against the wishes of the current management. A person who is the main principal in performing such a buyout is called a corporate raider.
Syn. -- hostile buyout. [ PJC ]

n. pl. 1. a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration, during which the international rules of war apply.
Syn. -- war, state of war, hot war. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

We have showed ourselves generous adversaries . . . and have carried on even our hostilities with humanity. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. acts of overt warfare.
Syn. -- belligerency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Hostilities [ L. hostilitas: cf. F. hostilité. ] 1. State of being hostile; public or private enemy; unfriendliness; animosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hostility being thus suspended with France. Hayward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of an open enemy; a hostile deed; especially in the plural, acts of warfare; attacks of an enemy. See hostilities [ 1913 Webster ]

He who proceeds to wanton hostility, often provokes an enemy where he might have a friend. Crabb.

Syn. -- Animosity; enmity; opposition; violence; aggression; contention; warfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make hostile; to cause to become an enemy. [ Obs. ] A. Seward. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Host an army. ] [ Obs. ] 1. An encounter; a battle. “Fierce hosting.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A muster or review. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. hosteler, osteler, innkeeper, OF. hostelier, F. hôtelier. See Hostel, and cf. Hospitaler, Hosteler. ] 1. An innkeeper. [ Obs. ] See Hosteler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The person who has the care of horses at an inn or stable; hence, any one who takes care of horses; a groom; -- so called because the innkeeper formerly attended to this duty in person. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Railroad) The person who takes charge of a locomotive when it is left by the engineer after a trip. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inhospitable. [ Obs. ] “A hostless house.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Agric.) A plant which aids, shelters, or protects another plant in its growth, as those which are used for nurse crops. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. hosterie, osterie, OF. hosterie. See Host a landlord. ] 1. A hostelry; an inn or lodging house. [ Obs. ] Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stable for horses. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Lophostea E. Lophosteons [ NL., from Gr. lo`fos a crest + &unr_; a bone. ] (Anat.) The central keel-bearing part of the sternum in birds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'orqo`s straight + &unr_; to place. ] (Anc. Costume) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Orthostichies [ Ortho- + Gr. sti`chos row. ] (Bot.) A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL. See Selachii, and Stoma. ] (Zool.) A division of ganoid fishes which includes the paddlefish, in which the mouth is armed with small teeth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A salt of sulphostannic acid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphacid of tin (more exactly called metasulphostannic acid), which is obtained as a dark brown amorphous substance, H&unr_;SnS&unr_;, forming a well-known series of salts. [ 1913 Webster ]

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