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To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.] Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.

Fit to make one aghast; dismal. [Obs.] -- Ghast"ful*ly, adv.

The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized. Macaulay.

Ghastliness. [Obs.] Shak.

To affright; to terrify. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Terrified; struck with amazement; showing signs of terror or horror. Aghast he waked; and, starting from his bed, Cold sweat in clammy drops his limbs o'erspread. Dryden. The commissioners read and stood aghast. Macaulay.

See Aghast.

Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.

r, for a sick person to look at his face in it. If his countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen; if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.

Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local, Eng.]

Ghastly; preternatural. Same as Eldritch. [Scot. & Local, Eng.]

To raise or lift up; to exalt. [Obs.] Wyclif. Who, naught aghast, his mighty hand enhanced. Spenser.

etfulness in surprise, astonishment, expectation, etc. With gaping wonderment had stared aghast. Byron.

To make aghast; to frighten; to terrify. See Aghast. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

See Ghastful, Ghastly.

See Ghastness. [Obs.]

Like a ghost; ghastly.

To express by grinning. Grinned horrible a ghastly smile.Milton.

Causing horror; frightful. Let . . . nothing ghastly or horrific be supposed. I. Taylor.