ghast

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  1. Same as gast. Ghasted by the noise I made, Full suddenly he fled. Shak., Lear, ii. 1. These men vppon their submission were so pined away for want of foode, and so ghasted with feare, … that they looked rather like to ghosts than men. Stow, Queen Elizabeth, an. 1586.
  2. Having a ghastly appearance; weird. 1st Lady. How ghast a train! 2d Lady. Sure this should be some splendid burial. Keats, Otho the Great, v. 5. How doth the wide and melancholy earth Gather her hills around us, grey and ghast! Mrs. Browning, Drama of Exile.

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  1. Also written, more correctly, gast, q. v.
  2. Poet. abbreviation of ghastly.
 

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