ghastnesst (gastnes)

[ Wyclif , Prov. iii. 25 (Oxf.). Look you pale, mistre ?- Do you perceive the ghastne of her eye? Shak ., Othello, v. 1. IMG:content-2266.png:[graphic] That it alone discomfited an host. Mir . for Mags. ghat, ghaut ut (gât), n. [Also written gaut , repr. 2. Feeling fear; afraid; fearful. Who is a ferdful man, and of gastful herte? Go he. Wyclif , Deut. xx. 8 (Purv.). ghastfullyt (gast'fül-i), adv . [Also written, more correctly, gast fully .] In a ghastful man- ner; dreadfully; frightfully. ghastfulne t (gast fül-nes), n. Fearfulne ; sense of fear. IMG:content-2267.png:[blocks in formation] Let ghast lin e e And drery horror dim the chearfull light, To make the image of true heavine e. Spenser, Daphnaïda, 1. 327. What jealous, fearful Pallor doth surprise Thy cheeks, what deadly ghastly ne thine eyes? J. Beaumont, Psyche, xiii. 24. The tree lay along the ground, and was wholly converted into a ma of diseased splendor, which threw a ghastli ne around. Hawthorne , Sketches from Memory. ghastly (gåstʻli), a. [Now spelled ghastly, but the proper spelling, etymologically, is gastly, Spenser, F. Q., II. iii. 20. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton , P. L., vi. 368. Hind. ghāt.] 1. In India, a pa of descent from a mountain; a mountain-pa ; hence, a range or chain of hills or mountains. The two principal mountain-ranges of southern Hindu stan are specifically named the Western and Eastern Ghats. 2. In India, a path of descent, landing-place, or stairway to a river, generally having at the sum IMG:content-2268.png:[graphic] Ghoosla Ghat, Benares. mit a temple, pagoda, or place of rest and recreation. Ghats abound especially along the Ganges, the most important being at Benares; the motive of their erection was to facilitate bathing in the sacred water, and drawing it for religious purposes. I wrote this remembering, in long, long distant days, such a ghaut or river-stair at Calcutta. Thackeray , Roundabout Papers, xviii. Between the banks is sweeping up the sand-laden wind, concealing from the huddled boats the temples and the ghat acro the river, the bridge that spans it, and the sky itself. P. Robinson , Under the Sun, p. 63. IMG:content-2269.png:[blocks in formation]