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Holy Ghost, (The,) n. [A.S. halig, holy, and gast, spirit.] The Holy Spirit; the third person in the Trinity, whom the Saviour promised to send to comfort his disciples, ( John xiv., xv., and xvi.) The doctrine of the "Filioque," a erting the "Proce ion" from the Father and the Son, formed one of the chief points of dispute which led to the separation of the Greek and Roman Churches, - the former contending that he proceed from the Father only. The Presbyterian Church maintains the doctrine held by the Roman Catholic Church. Ho'lyhead, an island and seaport of Wales, situated off the W. coast of the isle of Anglesey, with which it is connected by a long causeway which may be cro ed at low water, 23 m. N.W. of Bangor. The isle is but a barren rock. H. has a noble breakwater enclosing a harbor of refuge. Pop . (1897) 5,875. See SKERRIES. Holy Island, jutting out into the German Ocean from the coast of North umber land, Eng., but belonging to Durham, is really a peninsula, although isolated at high water. It is about 8 m. from Berwick and may be cro ed by carriages every ebb-tide. Holy Office. See INQUISITION. Holyoke ( hölyök ), in Ma achusetts , a thriving city of Hampden co., on Coun, river, and the B. & M. and N. Y., N. H. & H. R. Rs., 8 miles N. of Springfield. Has immense water power, proceeding from a dam laid entirely acro the Connecticut river, and very important manuf. of paper, envelopes, machinery, cottons, and woollens, . Pop . (1897) about 41,000.