How do you spell Spirit
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1) n. - Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
2) n. - A rough breathing; an aspirate, as the letter h; also, a mark to denote aspiration; a breathing.
3) 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.
4) 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.
5) n. - Specifically, a disembodied soul; the human soul after it has left the body.
6) n. - Any supernatural being, good or bad; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; also, sometimes, a sprite,; a fairy; an elf.
7) n. - Energy, vivacity, ardor, enthusiasm, courage, etc.
8) 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.
9) 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.
10) 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.
11) n. - Tenuous, volatile, airy, or vapory substance, possessed of active qualities.
12) 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.
13) n. - Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors having much alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.
14) n. - A solution in alcohol of a volatile principle. Cf. Tincture.
15) n. - Any one of the four substances, sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, or arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
16) n. - Stannic chloride. See under Stannic.
17) 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.
18) v. t. - To convey rapidly and secretly, or mysteriously, as if by the agency of a spirit; to kidnap; -- often with away, or off.
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