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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.

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.]

See Ghastful, Ghastly.

The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.

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.

Pale yellow; ghastly pale; wan; gloomy; dismal. Fierce o'er their beauty blazed the lurid flame. Thomson. Wrapped in drifts of lurid smoke On the misty river tide. Tennyson.

; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

Extreme pain; anguish of body or mind; pang; agony; torment; as, torture of mind. Shak. Ghastly spasm or racking torture. Milton.

, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.