<B>Gheg, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an Albanian living north of the Shkumbin River. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dialect spoken by such a person. </DL>
<A NAME="gheld">
<B>gheld, </B>noun. <B>=geld</B> (2).</DL>
<A NAME="gherao">
<B>gherao, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> (in India and Pakistan) a coercive tactic used by striking workers, in which employers or managers are barricaded in their offices until they meet the workers' demands. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to subject to a gherao. <BR> <I>Ex. The directors of one steel concern were "gheraoed" next to the blast furnace (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="gherkin">
<B>gherkin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, prickly cucumber often used for pickles. <DD><B> 2. </B>the plant it grows on. <DD><B> 3. </B>any young, green cucumber used for pickles. </DL>
<A NAME="ghetto">
<B>ghetto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tos</B> or <B>-toes,</B> verb, <B>-toed,</B> <B>-toing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1a. </B>a part of a city where any racial or other minority group lives, especially because of economic or social restrictions. <BR> <I>Ex. Blacks and other minority groups, segregated in their urban ghettoes ..., refused to accept their continued status as second-class citizens (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. "West Point is the beautiful ghetto. Everyone is healthy here, and if they are not healthy they are discharged" (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the part of a city where Jews were required to live in former times. <DD><I>v.t. </I> ghettoize. <BR> <I>Ex. If the immigrants are segregated, ghettoed, then they are apt to remain outsiders (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghettoblaster">
<B>ghetto blaster,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large portable radio, often combined with a cassette tape player. </DL>
<A NAME="ghettoization">
<B>ghettoization, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or process of ghettoizing; segregation in a ghetto. </DL>
<A NAME="ghettoize">
<B>ghettoize, </B>transitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to segregate or enclose in a ghetto. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the exclusive enclave of Riveredge, a millionaire subdivision [of estates], where a hundred of the best families have pridefully ghettoized themselves behind a wrought-iron gate (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghi">
<B>ghi, </B>noun. <B>=ghee.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ghibelline">
<B>Ghibelline, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a member of the imperial and aristocratic political party of medieval Italy, that supported the German emperors and was opposed to the Guelphs. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Ghibellines. </DL>
<A NAME="ghibli">
<B>ghibli, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in northern Africa, especially Libya) the khamsin or sirocco. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a ghibli rising, and the air is full of dust (Agnes Newton Keith).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghilgai">
<B>ghilgai, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia) a saucerlike depression forming a natural reservoir for rain water. Also, <B>gilgai.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ghillie">
<B>ghillie, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=gillie.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a low-cut sports shoe with fringed lace and no tongue. </DL>
<A NAME="ghilzai">
<B>Ghilzai, </B>noun, pl. <B>-zai</B> or <B>-zais.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a large Pathan tribe of Afghanistan. </DL>
<A NAME="ghiordes">
<B>Ghiordes, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Turkish rug having a cotton web and an uneven woolen pile in which the two ends of piece of yarn appear at the surface between the two adjacent warps around which the yarn is knotted. </DL>
<A NAME="ghoorka">
<B>Ghoorka, </B>noun. <B>=Gurkha.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ghost">
<B>ghost, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the spirit of one who is dead. It is supposed to live in another world and appear to living people as a pale, dim, shadowy form. <BR> <I>Ex. The ghost of the murdered man haunted the house.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) anything pale, dim, or shadowy like a ghost; a faint image; slightest suggestion. <BR> <I>Ex. a ghost of a smile. Our team didn't have a ghost of a chance to win the basketball game.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the spirit, as distinct from the body; seat of feeling, thought, and moral action; soul. <BR> <I>Ex. It will be a good step towards the knowledge of what the world ought to be to us, who are body and ghost together (N. Fairfax).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Informal.) a ghost writer. <DD><B> 5. </B>a secondary or multiple image resulting from the reflection of a transmitted television signal. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Optics.) a bright spot or secondary image produced by some defect in the lens or instrument. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Obsolete.) <DD><B> a. </B>a good spirit; angel. <DD><B> b. </B>an evil spirit; demon. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to haunt as a ghost does. <BR> <I>Ex. Julius Caesar, Who at Philippi the good Brutus ghosted (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to be a ghost writer for. <BR> <I>Ex. There was the case of a star performer who was being ghosted by sports editor John Barrington (Harper's).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) to ghostwrite. <BR> <I>Ex. A free-lance sports writer ... helped ghost the original manuscript into language for the layman (Maclean's).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to go about or move like a ghost. <BR> <I>Ex. Other more elegant craft with neater lines than ours went ghosting by (London Times).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) to be a ghost writer. <BR> <I>Ex. All his life he ghosted for other writers.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> deserted; forsaken. <BR> <I>Ex. a ghost house.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>give up the ghost,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to die. </I> <I>Ex. A tiger ... shot through the heart ... is still capable of killing half-a-dozen men before giving up the ghost (FitzWilliam T. Pollok).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to cease to function; come to an end. <BR> <I>Ex. The Third Avenue "L" gave up the ghost ... in its seventy-seventh year, leaving no descendants (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the ghost walks,</B> </I>(originally theatrical slang) payday. <BR> <I>Ex. This is the day the ghost walks.</I> adj. <B>ghostless.</B> adj. <B>ghostlike.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ghost">
<B>GHOST, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> Global Horizontal Sounding Technique (a system of collecting atmospheric data from radio-transmitting balloons set afloat at specified levels in the atmosphere). </DL>
<A NAME="ghostcrab">
<B>ghost crab,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sand crab found commonly on beaches of the Atlantic Ocean from Long Island to Rio de Janeiro. It appears and suddenly disappears, ghostlike, in the sand. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostdance">
<B>ghost dance,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a religious dance of certain North American Indians, especially a circle dance intended for communication with the dead. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostdom">
<B>ghostdom, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the region or domain of ghosts. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostgum">
<B>ghost gum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in Australia) a stunted eucalyptus with white limbs and a few leaves. </DL>
<A NAME="ghosthood">
<B>ghosthood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state of being a ghost, a ghost town, a ghost writer, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Ghosthood decreed for a town in Italy (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghostly">
<B>ghostly, </B>adjective, <B>-lier,</B> <B>-liest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>like a ghost; pale, dim, and shadowy. <BR> <I>Ex. A ghostly form walked across the stage.</I> (SYN) spectral. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with a ghost. <BR> <I>Ex. ghostly legends.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) spiritual; religious. <BR> <I>Ex. Both worldly and ghostly comfort (Scott).</I> noun <B>ghostliness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ghostmoth">
<B>ghost moth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a family of lepidopterous, nocturnal insects with short antennae and long wings, whose larvae burrow in the roots or beneath the bark of trees. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostplant">
<B>ghost plant,</B> <B>=tumbleweed.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ghostshrimp">
<B>ghost shrimp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a slender, translucent shrimp that lives in burrows on sandy beaches of the western coast of North America. </DL>
<A NAME="ghoststation">
<B>ghost station,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) an unused or unstaffed railroad station. </DL>
<A NAME="ghoststory">
<B>ghost story,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a story about ghosts. <DD><B> 2. </B>a story not to be believed. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostsurgery">
<B>ghost surgery,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an unethical practice in which a surgeon operates on the patient of another surgeon with whom he has made this arrangement without the consent or knowledge of the patient. </DL>
<A NAME="ghosttown">
<B>ghost town,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a once-flourishing town that has become empty and lifeless. <BR> <I>Ex. Then something went wrong, a lot of money was lost, and the place turned into a ghost town (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghostword">
<B>ghost word,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an apparent word found in manuscript or print, that owes its existence to the error of a scribe, editor, or printer. </DL>
<A NAME="ghostwrite">
<B>ghostwrite</B> or <B>ghost-write, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-wrote,</B> <B>-written,</B> <B>-writing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to write (something) for another who pretends to be the author. <BR> <I>Ex. This client telephoned my friend ... and asked that he ghost-write a letter to be sent to the head of the public relations firm (Daniel J. Boorstin).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghostwriter">
<B>ghost writer,</B> or <B>ghostwriter, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who writes something for another person who pretends to be the author. <BR> <I>Ex. Mencken had been mousetrapped into being a grievously unwitting Presidential ghost writer (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="ghosty">
<B>ghosty, </B>adjective, <B>ghostier,</B> <B>ghostiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a ghost; ghostly. adv. <B>ghostily.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ghoul">
<B>ghoul, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a horrible demon in Oriental stories, believed to rob graves and feed on corpses. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who robs graves or corpses. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a person who enjoys what is revolting, brutal, and horrible. </DL>
<A NAME="ghoulish">
<B>ghoulish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a ghoul; revolting, brutal, and horrible. adv. <B>ghoulishly.</B> noun <B>ghoulishness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="ghq">
<B>GHQ</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> General Headquarters. </DL>
<A NAME="ghrial">
<B>ghrial, </B>noun. <B>=garial.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ghurka">
<B>Ghurka, </B>noun. <B>=Gurkha.</B></DL>
<A NAME="ghyll">
<B>ghyll, </B>noun. <B>=gill</B> (3).</DL>
<A NAME="ghz">
<B>GHz</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> gigahertz. </DL>
