Gharry
Ghar´ry, n. [Hind. gai.] Any wheeled cart or carriage. [India]
Ghast, v. t. [OE. gasten. See Ghastly, a. ] To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.]
"Ghasted by the noise I made.
Full suddenly he fled." Shak.
Ghastful
Ghast´ful, a. [See Ghastly, a. ] Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] — Ghast´ful•ly, adv.
Ghastliness
Ghast´li•ness, n. The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.
Ghastly
Ghast´ly, a. [ Compar. Ghastlier superl. Ghastliest.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. gaestan. Cf. Aghast, Gast, Gaze, Ghostly.]
1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal.
"Each turned his face with a ghastly pang." Coleridge.
"His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized." Macaulay.
2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
"Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail." Milton.
Ghastly
Ghast´ly, adv. In a ghastly manner; hideously.
"Staring full ghastly like a strangled man." Shak.
Ghastness
Ghast´ness, n. Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak. { GhatGhaut }, n. [Hind. ghat.]
1. A pass through a mountain. [India] J. D. Hooker.
2. A range of mountains. Balfour (Cyc. of Ind. ).
3. Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf. [India] Malcom.
Ghawazi
Gha•wa´zi, n. pl. [Etymol. uncertain.] Egyptian dancing girls, of a lower sort than the almeh. { Ghe´ber, Ghe´bre }, n. [Pers. ghebr: cf. F. Guèbre. Cf. Giaour.] A worshiper of fire; a Zoroastrian; a Parsee.
Ghazi
Gha´zi, n. [Ar. ghazi.] Among Mohammedans, a warrior champion or veteran, esp. in the destruction of infidels.
Ghee (ge), n. [Hind. ghi clarified butter, Skr. ghrta.] Butter clarified by boiling, and thus converted into a kind of oil. [India] Malcom.
Gherkin
Gher´kin (ger"kin), n. [D. agurkje, a dim. akin to G. gurke, Dan. agurke; cf. Pol. ogórek, Bohem. okurka, LGr. ’aggoy•rion watermelon, Ar. al-khiyar, Per. khiyar.]
1. (Bot.) A kind of small, prickly cucumber, much used for pickles.
2. (Zoöl.) See Sea gherkin.
Ghess, v. t. & i. See Guess. [Obs.]
Ghetto
Ghet´to, n. [It.] The Jews’quarter in an Italian town or city.
"I went to the Ghetto, where the Jews dwell." Evelyn.
Ghetto
Ghet´to, n. A quarter of a city where Jews live in greatest numbers.
Ghibelline
Ghib´el•line, n. [It. Ghibellino; of German origin.] (It. Hist.) One of a faction in Italy, in the 12th and 13th centuries, which favored the German emperors, and opposed the Guelfs, or adherents of the poses. Brande & C.
Ghole, n. See Ghoul.
Ghost, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. gast breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. gst spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.]
1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.]
"Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament." Spenser.
2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
"The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose." Shak.
"I thought that I had died in sleep,
And was a blessed ghost." Coleridge.
3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
"Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor." Poe.
4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zoöl.), 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. — Togive up or yield upthe ghost, to die; to expire.
"And he gave up the ghost full softly." Chaucer.
"Jacob … yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people". Gen. xlix. 33.
Ghost, v. i. To die; to expire. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
Ghost, v. t. To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition. [Obs.] Shak.
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, orMessiah, 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.
Ghostfish
Ghost´fish, n. (Zoöl.) A pale unspotted variety of the wrymouth.
Ghostless
Ghost´less, a. Without life or spirit. [R.]
Ghostlike
Ghost´like, a. Like a ghost; ghastly.
Ghostliness
Ghost´li•ness, n. The quality of being ghostly.
Ghostly
Ghost´ly, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. gastlic. See Ghost.]
1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as a ghostly confessor.
"Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies." Book of Common Prayer [Ch. of Eng. ]
"One of the gostly children of St. Jerome." Jer. Taylor.
2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. Akenside.
Ghostly
Ghost´ly, adv. Spiritually; mystically. Chaucer.
Ghostology
Ghost•ol´o•gy, n. Ghost lore. [R.]
"It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a thing of ghostology and witchcraft." Hawthorne.
Ghoul (gool), n. [Per. ghol an imaginary sylvan demon, supposed to devour men and animals: cf. Ar. ghul, F. goule.] An imaginary evil being among Eastern nations, which was supposed to feed upon human bodies. [Written also ghole .] Moore.
Ghoulish
Ghoul´ish, a. Characteristic of a ghoul; vampirelike; hyenalike.
Ghyll, n. A ravine. See Gill a woody glen. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Wordsworth.