(n.) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes,
life itself.
(n.) A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a
mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
(n.) Life, or living substance, considered independently of
corporeal existence; an intelligence conceived of apart from any
physical organization or embodiment; vital essence, force, or energy,
as distinct from matter.
(n.) The intelligent, immaterial and immortal part of man; the
soul, in distinction from the body in which it resides; the agent or
subject of vital and spiritual functions, whether spiritual or
material.
(n.) Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it
has left the body.
(n.) Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a
specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
(n.) Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
(n.) One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great
activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper; as, a ruling
spirit; a schismatic spirit.
(n.) Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or
disposition; intellectual or moral state; -- often in the plural; as,
to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be downhearted, or in bad
spirits.
(n.) Intent; real meaning; -- opposed to the letter, or to
formal statement; also, characteristic quality, especially such as is
derived from the individual genius or the personal character; as, the
spirit of an enterprise, of a document, or the like.
(n.) Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of
active qualities.
(n.) Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol,
the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from
wine): -- often in the plural.
(n.) Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors
having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
(n.) A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf.
Tincture.
(n.) Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac,
quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
(n.) Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
(v. t.) To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to
inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private
men; -- sometimes followed by up.
(v. t.) To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if
by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
