"Spirit" is a word in ENGLISH
Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a
specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
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.
Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors
having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to
inspirit; as, civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private
men; -- sometimes followed by up.
Any liquid produced by distillation; especially, alcohol,
the spirits, or spirit, of wine (it having been first distilled from
wine): -- often in the plural.
Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac,
quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf.
Tincture.
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.
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.
Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it
has left the body.
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.
A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a
mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if
by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
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.
Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of
active qualities.
Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes,
life itself.
When you walk around with a long face in the house, that is called conflict.
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