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2. Verb. (third-person singular of ghost) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Ghosts

1. ghost [v] - See also: ghost

Medical Definition of Ghosts

1. The membrane and cytoskeletal elements of the erythrocyte devoid of cytoplasmic contents, but preserving the original morphology. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghosts

Literary usage of Ghosts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead by James George Frazer (1913)
"Pp. 367-392 Public sacrifices to ghosts in the Solomon Islands, pp. 367 sq. ; offering of first- fruits to ghosts, 368 sq.; private ghosts as distinguished ..."

2. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"How you know dey ain't no ghosts?" An' liT black Mose he kinder lean' up 'g'inst de school-teacher whut board at Une' Silas ..."

3. The Odyssey of Homer by Homer, William Morris (1887)
"BUT now the ghosts of the men who were of the Wooers' band Called forth ... meads of asphodel, Wherein the ghosts, the pictures of outworn men-folk, dwell. ..."

4. The Word by Harold Waldwin Percival (1913)
"ghosts of the past and the present swarm and hover over the old world lands, ... ghosts continue to fight their battles "of the past, to dream through ..."

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