ghaist (gast)

A Scotch form of ghost. Geyserite. I... hillocks, stanes, and bushes kenn'd aye Frae ghaists an' witches. Burns , Death and Dr. Hornbook. ghark (gärk), n. [E. Ind.] The tree, Aquilaria Agalloch a , which yields the eaglewood. gharrial (gar'i-al), n. [Hind. ghariyāl.] as gavial. Same [Also gharry (gar'i), n.; pl. gharries (-iz). ghorry, gharee; repr. Hind. gēri (a rough r), Beng., Mahratta, Telugu, Canarese, etc., gādi (cerebral d), a carriage, a cart.] A native East Indian cart or carriage, in its typical form, drawn by oxen or ponies. In special uses the various kinds are usually distinguished by a prefix: as, palki - gharry, palanquin-carriage; sej - gharry, chaise; rel gharry, railway-carriage. The common ghorry is rarely, if ever, kept by an European, but may be seen plying for hire in various parts of Calcutta. T. Williams on , East India Vade Mecum, I. 329. My husband was to have met us with a two-horse gharee . Trevelyan , Dawk Bungaloo, p. 384. ghastt (gåst), v . t . [Also written, more correctly, gast2 , q. v.] Same as gast2 . Ghasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled. Shak ., Lear, ii. 1. These men vppon their submi ion were so pined away for want of foode, and so ghasted with feare, that they looked rather like to ghosts than men. Stow , Queen Elizabeth, an. 1586. ghast (gåst), a . [Poet. abbr. of ghastly .] Having a ghastly appearance; weird. 1st Lady. How ghast a train! 2d Lady. Sure this should be some splendid burial. Keats, Otho the Great, v. 5. How doth the wide and melancholy earth Gather her hills around us, grey and ghast ! Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile. ghastfult (gast'fül), a. [Also written, more correctly, gastful, Musidorus casting a gastful countenance upon him, as if he would conjure some strange spirits, he cried unto him. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, i. I tell no lie, so ghastful grew my name, ghat Then welcome, Death; thy gastly face, said she, Is fairer than the Visage of this sin. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 211. The cold and ghastly moon glancing through bars of cloud at a wreck just sinking. Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, i. Goths, wars, famines, and plague succeed each other in ghastly proce ion. D. G. Mitchell, Wet Days. 2. Deathly in import or suggestion; morally dreadful or shocking. Thy untimely death must pay thy Mothers Debts, and her guiltle e crime must bee thy gastly curse. Greene, Pandosto. =Syn. Ghastly, Grim, Grisly, Haggard, Hideous; pale, wan, cadaverous, frightful. Hideous may apply to sound, as a hideous noise; the others not. All in modern use apply primarily to sight and secondarily to mental perception, except haggard, which connotes sight only. Ghastly, as it is most commonly used, means deathly pale, deathlike, referring to the countenance, but its signification has been extended to denote anything that suggestive of death, or even repulsive and shocking, as Milton's "mangled with ghastly wounds" (P. L., vi. 368), "a ghastly smile" ( Milton, P. L., ii. 846), a ghastly jest. Grim characterizes a rigid cast of countenance, indicating a severe, stern, or even ruthle disposition. Grisly refers to the whole form or aspect, especially when dark, forbidding, or such as to inspire terror. Haggard adds to the idea of palene of countenance that of being wasted by famine or protracted mental agony. Hideous, used of looks, applies to the whole form or scene, and means simply repulsive, extremely unpleasant to see: as, hideous features; a hideous scene. See pale2. Her face was so ghastly that it could not be recognized. Macaulay. Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front. Shak., Rich. III., i. 1. My grisly countenance made others fly; None durst come near, for fear of sudden death. Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 4. She.. ki ed her poor quivering lips and eyelids, and laid her young cheek against the pale and haggard one. George Eliot, Felix Holt, 1. Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend, More hideous when thou show'st theem a child Than the sea-monster! Shak ., Lear, i. 4. ghastly (gast'li), adv . [ ghastly , a.] In a ghastly manner; dreadfully; hideously; with a deathlike aspect. Having a great while thrown her countenance ghastly about her, as if she had called all the powers of the world to be witne of her wretched estate. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 2. The Captain looked ghastly upon him, and said, Then, Sir, get you out of my Tent, for you have done me a very ill Office. Howell , Letters, I. iv. 28.