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English

Alternative forms

• ghost

Etymology

From Middle English gost, see below.

Noun

gost (plural gosts)

1. Obsolete form of ghost.

Related terms

• geist

References

• gost in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• GTOs, gots, stog, togs

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gast, goost, goste

Etymology

From Old English g?st, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/
• Rhymes: -??st

Noun

gost (plural gostes)

1. a spiritual being; angel, devil, spirit; soul of a dead person
   • 1386, Chaucer, Legend of Good Women:

     This nyght my faderes gost Hath in my slep so sore me tormented.

   • 1500, The Towneley Plays:

     The gost went to hell a pase whils the cors lay slayn, And broght the sawles from sathanas.

   • 1525, English Conquest of Ireland:

     The dede to areren, yuel gostes to quethen.

2. the Holy Ghost
   • Goddes gost is þe geven. — Cleanness, c1400
3. A villain, scoundrel; a devil incarnate; a wicked-looking creature
   • In þat doynge Paternus the monk semeþ a lewed goost. — Polychronicon Ranulphi Higden, 1387
4. The soul of man, spiritual nature
   • ?e cursed gostes, goþ in-to þe pyne of helle! — Seint Ieremie telleþ, c1400
   • Lyfe is none quen gost is lede. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500
5. A spiritual force or insight, a gift of prophecy
   • A haþel in þy holde..hatz þe gostes of God þat gyes alle soþes. — Cleanness, c1400
6. A breath, blowing, wind; God's breath, a spiritual wind; the blowing of storm
   • Gost-wynd nedefull is to recouer monnes gost þat greued is. — A Stanzaic Life of Christ, 1500

Derived terms

Descendants

• English: ghost
• Scots: gaist, gast, ghaist
• Yola: gaast

References

• “g?st, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan [Term?], from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *?éwstus. Numerous cognates include Catalan gust, Italian gusto and French goût.

Noun

gost m (plural gosts)

1. taste (of food, drink, etc.)

Derived terms

• gostós

See also

• tastar

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *gost?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ô?st/, /?ôst/

Noun

g?st m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. guest

   Svakog gosta tri dana dosta. - [For] every guest three days is enough. (proverb)

Declension

References

• “gost”, in ?????? ???????????????? ????????? ?????? (in Serbo-Croatian), volume 1, ????? ?????????? ?????? edition, ???? ???, ??????: ?????? ??????, ?????? ????????, 1967–1976, published 1990, page 542
• “gost” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Etymology 1

From Proto-Slavic *gost?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?óstis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???st/

Noun

g?st m anim

1. guest

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Etymology 2

From Proto-Slavic *g?st?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ó?st/

Adjective

g??st (comparative gost?jši, superlative n?jgost?jši)

1. dense

Inflection

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Further reading

• “gost”, in Slovarji Inštituta za slovenski jezik Frana Ramovša ZRC SAZU, portal Fran

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

gost m (plural gest)

1. guest

Zazaki

Etymology

Compare Persian ????? (gušt).

Noun

gost ?

1. meat

English

Etymology

See gloss.

Noun

glost (uncountable)

1. (often attributive) Lead glazing used for pottery.
   • 1912, Alice Hamilton, Lead Poisoning in Potteries, Tile Works, and Porcelain Enameled Sanitary Ware Factories, Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor, Whole Number 104, Industrial Accidents and Hygiene Series, No. 1, page 18,

     In the sanitary-ware potteries of Trenton, and in the general-ware potteries of East Liverpool, the glost-kiln men simply place the glazed ware in saggers, and therefore the only exposure to lead comes from getting their hands smeared with the glaze.

   • 1942, American Ceramic Society Bulletin, Volume 21, page 47,

     The variations in glaze texture with different glost thermal treatment were observed. Two glazes, each made of the same end formula but differing in the distribution of their composition, received four different commercial glost firings.

   • 1978, W. Ryan, Properties of Ceramic Raw Materials, 2nd Edition, page 19,

     If no decoration is applied, biscuit or glost firing is the final operation in manufacture.

Derived terms

• glost oven

German

Verb

glost

1. inflection of glosen:
   1. second/third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. plural imperative