Ghost

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 173

gost, n. The spirit; the soul of man; the soul of a deceased person; an apparition; any faint semblance,— as, the ghost of a chance. — Ghostly, -It, a. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; pert, to apparitions.