ghostless 
ghostlesst (gost'les), a. [< ME. 'gostles, < AS. 
gdstleds (= D. geesteloos = G. geigtlos), lifeless.] 
Without spirit, soul, or life. 
Works are the breath of faith, the proofs by which we 
may judge whether it live. If you feel them not, the faith 
is ghostless. Dr. It. Clarke, Sermons, p. 473. 
ghostlike (gost'lik), a. [< ghost + like%.] Like 
a ghost or specter; deathlike. 
Thy thinne cheeke, hollow eye, 
Anil ghostlike colour, speake the mystery 
Thou wouhlst, but canst not live by. ehoul (eol), n. 
Nabbes, Hannibal and Scipio. * 
ghostliness (gost'li-nes), n. The state or qual- 
ity of being ghostly. 
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tionaries and Rlossariea of the older stages of the English 
as well as of other languages. 
As "ghost-words" Mr. Skeat, in his "Presidential Ad- 
dress" [Trans. Philol. Soc., 1886], designates "words which 
had never any real existence, being mere coinages due to 
the blunders of printers or scribes, or to the perfervid ima- 
ginations of ignorant or blundering editors." 
Amer. Jour. Philol., IX. 226. 
f "estres"; 
'if.andQ., 7th ser., V. 504. 
[Formerly also written ghole, 
gib 
We make of Nature's giant powers 
The slaves of human Art. 
Whittier, The Ship-Builders. 
Giant cactus, the Cereus giganteus. See cuts under 
Vactacea. Giant cavy, the water-cavy. See capibara. 
Giant cell, in anat., an osteoclast. Giant clam, a bi- 
valve mollusk of the family Tridacnidce. Giant cockle, 
Cardium, magnum. Giant fennel. See/ennel. Giant 
fulmar. See fulmar. Giant rail. See Leywtia^ 
giantess (ji'an-tes), n. [< giant 
female giant ; a female of e 
and stature. 
. ._ + -ess.] 
extraordinary bulk 
I had rather be a giantess, and lie under Mount Pelion. 
Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 1. 
_ - , 
goule, gowl, etc. ; < Ar. ghul, Pers. ghul, ghol, 
also ghuwal, a demon of the mountains and the 
woods, supposed to devour men and other ani- giantish (ji'an-tish), a. [<0Ot+-M*i.J . 
mals.] An imaginary evil being supposed 
among Eastern nations to prey upon human 
bodies ; an ogre. 
Go and with Gouls and Afrits rave ; 
Till these in horror shrink away 
From spectre more accursed than they ! 
Byron, The Giaour. 
You know there are people in India a kind of beast- 
ly race, the ghouls who violate graves. 
The Century, XXXVI. 127. giant-kettle (jTant-ket'l), n. A pot-hole, often 
^ffSS^^SS^^:^^ ghoulish (go'lish), a. [< ghoul + -ishL] Nat- of enormous dimensions, common on the coast 
dirfull swetnes in this lyfe here. ural to or resembling a ghoul : as, ghoulish de- ol JNorway. .-..,., T , ,, , 
llampole, Prose Treatises (E. E. T. S.), p. 43. light. giant-killer (ji'ant-kil"er), n. In folk-lore, nur- 
The life of man upon earth is nothing else than a war- ghurial (gur'i-al), n. [Hind, ghariyal : see ga- sery-tales, etc., one who makes it his business 
fare and continual afflict with his ghostly enemies. vial 1 Same as aavial to kill giants. The giants in such stories are generally 
.rker Soc.), II. 542. represented as cruel, merciless, and often cannibalistic, 
P JRolinson Under the Sun p 79 but 8O 8tu P id as to be easily overcome by courageous cun- 
~Long'feiiow, Morituri Salutamus. ghnrry, ghurrie (gur'i), n. ; pi. ghurries (-iz). giantly (ji'ant-li), a. [< giant + -ly 1 .] Giant- 
_ , . *.! _ r / Qlr4- . ,\, ,, t , /.,,,i..Ll,,i.il 4\ ~\ lr\ T-n/lia ( n\ A III-,. fDnwn ~\ 
ghostly (gost'li), a. [With inserted h, as in 
ghost; < ME. gostly, gostlich, earlier gastly, 
gastUch, < AS. gdstlic, gcestlic, of a spirit, spir- 
itual (= OS. gesttik = OFries. gdstlik, gdstelik, 
iestlik = D. geestelijk = OHG. geistlih, MHG. 
geistlich, geislich, G. geistlich, spiritual, = Dan. 
geistlig, clerical), < gdst, spirit, a spirit, + -lie, 
-lyi.] 1. Having to do with the soul or spirit; 
spiritual ; not of the flesh ; not carnal or secular. 
what like a giant; uncommonly large. 
Their stature neither dwarf noi giantish, 
But in a comely well-dispos'd proportion. 
Randolph, Muses Looking-Glass, r. 1. 
giantism (jl'an-tizm), . [< giant + -ism.] The 
state of being a giant. [Rare.] 
O happy state of giantism, when husbands 
Like mushrooms grow. Fielding, Tom Thumb, i. 
Becon, Works (Parker Soc.), II. 542. 
The writer of this legend then records 
Its ghostly application in these words. 
2. Pertaining or relating to apparitions; of 
ghostlike character; spectral; supernatural: 
as, ghostly sounds ; a ghostly visitant. 
I have no sorcerer's malison on me, 
No ghostly hauntings like his Highness. 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
ghostlyt (gost'li), adv. [< ME. gostly, goostli, < 
AS. gastlice, spiritually, < gastlic, spiritual : see 
ghostly, a.] Spiritually ; mystically; mentally; 
with reference to the mind as contrasted with 
[Rare.] 
"[< Sk't! "ghati (cerebral' *)] In India (a) A 
clepsydra, or water-instrument for measuring 
time. (6) The gong on which the time so in- 
dicated is struck. Hence (c) A clock or other 
timepiece, (d) In old Hindu custom, the 60th 
part of a day or night (24 minutes), (e) In 
Anglo-Indian usage, an hour. Yule and Burnett. 
We have fixed the coss at 6,000 Guz, which must be trav- giant-powder (grant-pounder), n. 
elled by the postman in a Ghurry and a half. 
The Sasquesahanockes are a Giantly people, strange in 
proportion, behauiour, and attire, their voice sounding 
from them as out of a Caue. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 767. 
This chieftain, as I have before noted, was a very giant- 
ly man, and was clad in a coarse blue coat. 
Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 371. 
the sight. 
The rnorwe com, and goetly for to speke, 
This Diomede is come unto Crysede. 
Chaucer, Troilus, v. 1082. 
Loue is yoosfKdeliciouse as wijn 
That makith men bothe big & bolde. 
Hymns to Virgin, etc. (E. E. T. S.X p. 25. 
Now maketh he a triall how much his disciples haue 
profited ghostly. J. Udall, On Mark viii. 
The prince and the whole state may be suffered to perish 
bodily aud ghostly. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1836), II. 108. 
ghost-moth (gost'mdth), n. A nocturnal lepi- 
dopterous insect, Epialus humuli. The male is giant (ji'ant), . and a. 
white, and has a habit of hovering with a pendulum-like giaund, earlier 
o ____ r ______ -w ^ An explo- 
"sive formed of nitroglycerin mixed with infu- 
Tippoo's Letters, p. 216. (Yule and Burnett.) sor i a l earth. It is a form of dynamite. 
ll (gil), n. A false spelling of gilfi. giant-queller (ji'ant-kweFer), n. A subduer 
antico (jal'lo an-te'ko). [It.: giallo, of giants; a giant-killer. 
Tne flj msy giantry of Ossian has introduced mountain- 
ous horrors. Walpole, Letters (1784), IV. 380. 
yellow (see yellow) ; antico, ancient (see antic).] giantry (ji'an-tri), n. [< giant + -ry.] The 
A marble of a rich golden-yellow color, deepen- race of giants; giants collectively. [Rare.] 
ing in tint to orange and pink, found among 
Roman ruins and used anew in buildings of the 
Renaissance and later times. It is identified 
by J. H. Middleton ("Ancient Rome in 1885") 
with the manner Numidicum of the ancients. 
Discs and strips of serpentine, porphyry and giallo an- 
tico. C. C. Perkins, Italian Sculpture, Int., p. Iviii. 
[< ME. giaunt, gyant, g^^g^^ (ji'ant-swing), n. 
, F (jl'ant-ship), n. [< giant + -ship.] 
The state, quality, or character of being a giant : 
used in the extract as a descriptive title. 
His giantship is gone somewhat crest-fallen. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 1244. 
ence of the supernatural. [Humorous.] 
It seemed more unaccountable than if it had been a 
thing of ghostology and witchcraft. 
Hawthorne, Septimius Felton, p. 294. 
destroyed by the gods (Homer), called sons of 
Gaia, the Earth (Hesiod, etc.), and hence the 
i = __ __ In gymnastics, 
a revolution at arm's length around a horizon- 
[An It. spelling of Turk, jawr, 
1, a miscreant, < Pers. gawr, 
another form of gabr, an infidel, a 
Gueber: see Gueber.] An infidel: used by the 
Turks to designate an adherent of any religion 
except the Mohammedan, more particularly a 
ghost-plant (gost'plant), n. 
Amarantus albus. 
The tumbleweed, 
T* . t ii i_ ft - - AT. _T- CACept lllc BLlMUUlllUDunUi inyji o ui LIV;UAAI Y t 
epithet yrnevTK, earth-born (<yr,, yam, the earth, chrig p tia and go commo ' n l y that it does not 
+ -yew, -born, <y yev, bear .produce ) ; but y- neceggari j y imp , y an ingult / 
Dr. Newberry has told us that it [Amarantus albus] is 
also known as the ghost-plant, in allusion to the same 
habit, bunches flitting along by night producing a pecu- 
liarly weird appearance. Science, IX. 32. 
ghost-seer (g6st'se"er), n. One who sees ghosts 
or apparitions. 
M. Binet treats all ghost-seers as so paralysed with ter- 
ror that they do not move their eyes from the figure. 
Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, III. 172, note. 
ghost-show (gost'sho), n. A spiritualistic ex- 
hibition. [Colloq.] 
ghost-soul (gost'sol), n. A supposed appari- 
tional soul, or phantom likeness of the body, 
capable of leaving the body for a time or alto- 
gether and appearing to other persons asleep 
or awake. 
At the lowest levels of culture of which we have clear 
knowledge, the notion of a ghost-soul animating man 
while in the body, and appearing in dream and vision out 
of the body, is found deeply ingrained. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 451. 
ghost-story (gost'sto'ri), n. A story about 
ghosts or in which ghosts are introduced ; hence, 
by extension, any story or statement to which 
no credence should be given. 
It is still safe and easy to treat anything which can 
possibly be called a ghost-story as on a par with such fig- 
ments as these. Proc. Soc. Psych. Research, II. 112. 
ghost-word (gost'werd), n. An apparent word 
or false form found in manuscript or print, due 
to some blunder of the scribe, editor, or printer. 
Such ghost-words, mostly miswritings or misprints not 
obvious U) subsequent renders m 1 editors, abound in dic- 
yaf and yriyevijs cannot be etymologically iden- 
tical, nor can y/yaf (yi-ya-vr-) contain the / yev 
unless in the shorter form ya, which appears in 
Epic perf. inf. ys-ya-fKv, part. ye-ya-<if, etc. Cf. 
gigantic, etc.] I. n. 1. la classical myth., one 
of a divine but monstrous race, children of 
Uranus (Heaven) and Geea (Earth), and personi- 
fying destructive physical phenomena, as those 
of volcanic origin. They were subdued by the Olym- 
pian gods after a war which forms a favorite subject in 
ancient art (see gigantomachy), and typifies the inherent 
opposition between darkness and light. 
Hence 2. Some other imaginary being of 
human form but superhuman size: as, Giant 
Despair, in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress." 
He was byseged sothliche with seuene grete geauntes, 
That with Antecrist helden harde aseyns Conscience. 
Piers Plowman (C), xxiii. 216. 
Giants of mighty bone, and bold emprise. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 642. 
3. Figuratively, a person of unusual size or of 
extraordinary powers, physical or mental. 
Then we went to pay a visit at a hotel in Jermyn Street. 
... A powdered giant lolling in the hall, his buttons 
emblazoned with prodigious coronets, took our cards up 
to the Prince. Thackeray, Newcomes, II. ii. 
Giant's Causeway. See causeway. 
II. a. Gigantic; of extraordinary size or force, 
actual or relative : as, ' ' the giant world," Shak. ; 
a giant intellect. 
Put the world's whole strength 
Into one giant arm. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 
As our dire neighbours of Cyclopean birth 
Match in fierce wrong the giant sons of earth. 
Pope, Odyssey, vii. 
Byron, The Giaour. 
(jar-de-net'to), n.; pi. giardinetti 
(-te). [It., dim. of giardino = E. garden.] A 
jewel, usually a finger-ring, ornamented with 
imitations of natural flowers in preciousstones. 
A common form of the chaton is a basket or vase from 
which a formal and decorative spray or bouquetof flowers 
emerges. 
gib 1 (jib), n. [Appar. < OF. gibbe, gibe, a sort 
of arm, an implement for stirring the earth and 
rooting up plants, apparently a hoe (Roque- 
fort) : see gibbet and jib 1 .] 1. A hooked stick. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 2. A wooden sup- 
port for the roof of a coal-mine. Halliwell. 
[Prov. Eng.] 3. A piece of iron used to clasp 
together the pieces of wood or iron of a fram- 
ing which is to be keyed. 4. In steam-mach., 
a fixed wedge used with the driving-wedge or 
key to tighten the strap which holds the brasses 
at the end of a connecting-rod. 5. The pro- 
jecting arm of a crane ; a gibbet. Also jib. 
E. H. Knight Gib and key, a fastening to connect 
a bar and strap together by means of a slot common to 
both, in which an E-shaped gib with a beveled back is in- 
serted and driven fast by a taper key. Car-Builder's Diet. 
To secure or fasten with a gib < 
[< ME. Gibbe, GyVbe, Gyb, a proper 
. iliar abbr. of Gilbert (F. Guilbert, 
ML. Gilbertus, etc., of OHG. origin, G. Gilbert ) ; 
much used as a proper name for an individual 
gibs, 
git 
