the spirit; the soul of man.-the disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.-any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.-a false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.-to die; to expire.-to appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.