Meaning

• Noun

  1. The soul of a person or other creature.
  2. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
  3. Enthusiasm.
  4. The manner or style of something.
  5. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
  6. A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
  7. Energy; ardour.
  8. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
  9. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state.
  10. (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
  11. (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
  12. (obsolete) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
  13. Stannic chloride.

• Verb