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   gestalt
         n 1: a configuration or pattern of elements so unified as a
               whole that it cannot be described merely as a sum of its
               parts

English Dictionary: ghostlike by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gestalt law of organization
n
  1. a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization
    Synonym(s): Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gestalt principle of organization
n
  1. a principle of Gestalt psychology that identifies factors leading to particular forms of perceptual organization
    Synonym(s): Gestalt law of organization, Gestalt principle of organization
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gestalt psychology
n
  1. (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties
    Synonym(s): Gestalt psychology, configurationism
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghastliness
n
  1. the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghastly
adj
  1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
    Synonym(s): ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
  2. gruesomely indicative of death or the dead; "a charnel smell came from the chest filled with dead men's bones"; "ghastly shrieks"; "the sepulchral darkness of the catacombs"
    Synonym(s): charnel, ghastly, sepulchral
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gheg dialect
n
  1. the dialect of Albanian spoken in northern Albania and Yugoslavia
    Synonym(s): Gheg, Gheg dialect
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghostlike
adj
  1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
    Synonym(s): apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghostliness
n
  1. strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
    Synonym(s): eeriness, ghostliness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
ghostly
adj
  1. resembling or characteristic of a phantom; "a ghostly face at the window"; "a phantasmal presence in the room"; "spectral emanations"; "spiritual tappings at a seance"
    Synonym(s): apparitional, ghostlike, ghostly, phantasmal, spectral, spiritual
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gastful \Gast"ful\, Gastly \Gast"ly\, a. [Obs.]
      See {Ghastful}, {Ghastly}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
      {Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
      fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[91]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
      {Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
      1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
            dismal.
  
                     Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
                     His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
                     recognized.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
  
                     Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
      {Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
      fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[91]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
      {Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
      1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
            dismal.
  
                     Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
                     His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
                     recognized.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
  
                     Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghastliness \Ghast"li*ness\, n.
      The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, adv.
      In a ghastly manner; hideously.
  
               Staring full ghastly like a strangled man. --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghastly \Ghast"ly\, a. [Compar. {Ghastlier}; superl.
      {Ghastliest}.] [OE. gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear,
      fr. gasten to terrify, AS. g[91]stan. Cf. {Aghast}, {Gast},
      {Gaze}, {Ghostly}.]
      1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid;
            dismal.
  
                     Each turned his face with a ghastly pang.
                                                                              --Coleridge.
  
                     His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be
                     recognized.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Horrible; shocking; dreadful; hideous.
  
                     Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostless \Ghost"less\, a.
      Without life or spirit. [R.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostlike \Ghost"like`\, a.
      Like a ghost; ghastly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostliness \Ghost"li*ness\, n.
      The quality of being ghostly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, a. [OE. gastlich, gostlich, AS. g[be]stlic.
      See {Ghost}.]
      1. Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual;
            as, a ghostly confessor.
  
                     Save and defend us from our ghostly enemies. --Book
                                                                              of Common
                                                                              Prayer [Ch. of
                                                                              Eng. ]
  
                     One of the gostly children of St. Jerome. --Jer.
                                                                              Taylor.
  
      2. Of or pertaining to apparitions. --Akenside.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostly \Ghost"ly\, adv.
      Spiritually; mystically. --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ghostology \Ghost*ol"o*gy\, n.
      Ghost lore. [R.]
  
               It seemed even more unaccountable than if it had been a
               thing of ghostology and witchcraft.         --Hawthorne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Teal \Teal\, n. [OE. tele; akin to D. teling a generation,
      production, teal, telen to breed, produce, and E. till to
      cultivate. The English word probably once meant, a brood or
      flock. See {Till} to cultivate.] (Zo[94]l.)
      Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the
      genus {Anas} and the subgenera {Querquedula} and {Nettion}.
      The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or
      blue speculum on the wings.
  
      Note: The common European teal ({Anas crecca}) and the
               European blue-winged teal, or garganey ({A.
               querquedula} or {A. circia}), are well-known species.
               In America the blue-winged teal ({A. discors}), the
               green-winged teal ({A. Carolinensis}), and the cinnamon
               teal ({A. cynaoptera}) are common species, valued as
               game birds. See {Garganey}.
  
      {Goose teal}, a goslet. See {Goslet}.
  
      {Teal duck}, the common European teal.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gustless \Gust"less\, a.
      Tasteless; insipid. [R.]

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Guy Steele
  
      {Guy Lewis Steele, Jr.}
  
  
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