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ghost sb. (the mod. use is the prevailing one)
1. incorporeal being, spirit Sonn. lxxxvi. 9.
2. apparition, spectre Ven. 933.
3. corpse 2H6 III. ii. 161 “a timely-parted ,” Ham. I. iv. 85.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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    • William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 1.4
    • William Shakespeare, The Second Part of Henry VI, 3.2
    • William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, ven
    • William Shakespeare, Sonnets, lxxxvi
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