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Hepialus humuli
Ghost Ghost, n. [OE. gast, gost, soul, spirit, AS. g[=a]st breath, spirit, soul; akin to OS. g?st spirit, soul, D. geest, G. geist, and prob. to E. gaze, ghastly.] 1. The spirit; the soul of man. [Obs.] Then gives her grieved ghost thus to lament. --Spenser. 2. The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter. The mighty ghosts of our great Harrys rose. --Shak. I thought that I had died in sleep, And was a blessed ghost. --Coleridge. 3. Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea. Each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. --Poe. 4. A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses. Ghost moth (Zo["o]l.), a large European moth (Hepialus humuli); so called from the white color of the male, and the peculiar hovering flight; -- called also great swift. Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit; the Paraclete; the Comforter; (Theol.) the third person in the Trinity. To give up or yield up the ghost, to die; to expire. And he gave up the ghost full softly. --Chaucer. Jacob . . . yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. --Gen. xlix. 33.

Meaning of Epialus from wikipedia

- Gazoryctra Species: G. mathewi Binomial name Gazoryctra mathewi (W.H. Edwards, 1874) Synonyms Epialus mathewi W.H. Edwards, 1874 Gazoryctra matthewi...
- Genus: Ph****us Species: P. tesselatus Binomial name Ph****us tesselatus (Herrich-****, [1854]) Synonyms Epialus tesselatus Herrich-****, [1854]...
- Family: Hepialidae Genus: Triodia Species: T. nubifer Binomial name Triodia nubifer (Lederer, 1853) Synonyms Epialus nubifer Lederer, 1853 Hepialus nubifer...
- Hepialidae Genus: Cibyra Species: C. exclamans Binomial name Cibyra exclamans (Herrich-****, [1854]) Synonyms Epialus exclamans Herrich-****, [1854]...
- Hepialidae Genus: Ph****us Species: P. pretiosus Binomial name Ph****us pretiosus (Herrich-****, [1856]) Synonyms Epialus pretiosus Herrich-****, [1856]...
- Gazoryctra Species: G. hyperboreus Binomial name Gazoryctra hyperboreus (Moschler, 1862) Synonyms Epialus hyperboreus Moschler, 1862 Gazoryctra hyperborea...
- hectoides (Boisduval, 1868) Synonyms List Hepialus hectoides Boisduval, 1868 Epialus modestus Edwards, 1873 Hepialus lenzi Behrens, 1876 Hepialus sangaris Strecker...
- Hepialidae Genus: Cibyra Species: C. epigramma Binomial name Cibyra epigramma (Herrich-****, [1854]) Synonyms Epialus epigramma Herrich-****, [1854]...
- 1872 Sthenopis behrnsii Stretch, 1872 Sthenopis montana Stretch, 1872 Epialus tacomae Edwards, 1874 Hepialus desolatus Strecker, 1875 Hepialus anceps...
- Hepialus humuli (Linnaeus, 1758) Synonyms List Genus: Hepiolus Illiger, 1801 Epialus Ag****iz, 1847 Epiolus Ag****iz, 1847 Tephus Wallengren, 1869 Species: Noctua...