[ghost] n [ME gost, gast, fr. OE gast; akin to OHG geist spirit, Skt heda anger] (bef. 12c) 1: the seat of life or intelligence: soul "give up the ~"
2: a disembodied soul; esp: the soul of a dead person believed to be an inhabitant of the unseen world or to appear to the living in bodily likeness
3: spirit, demon
4. a: a faint shadowy trace "a ~ of a smile" b: the least bit "not a ~ of a chance"
5: a false image in a photographic negative or on a television screen caused esp. by reflection
6: one who ghostwrites 7: a red blood cell that has lost its hemoglobin -- ghost.like adj -- ghosty adj
[2]ghost vt (1606) 1: to haunt like a ghost
2: ghostwrite ~ vi 1 a: to move silently like a ghost b: to sail quietly in light winds
2: ghostwrite