SPECTRE
ADJECTIVES
1816 — SPECTRAL characteristic of a spectre or phantom; ghostly, unreal, unsubstantial
NOUNS
.. 828 — EIDOLON an unsubstantial image, spectre, phantom
1384 — PHANTOM a spectre, a ghost, an apparition; a thing that appears to the sight but has no material substance
1440 — BEHOLDING the thing beheld; an image, a spectre; a vision → obs.
1440 — MARE a spectre, a hag → obs.
1507 — BOGLE a phantom causing fright; a goblin, bogy, or spectre of the night
1513 — WRAITH a spectre or apparition of a dead person; a phantom or ghost
1555 — FRAY-BUG an object of fear; a spectre, a bogy
1561 — BULL-BEAR a spectre, bogy; an object of groundless terror → obs.
1570 — BOGGARD — BOGGART a spectre, goblin, or bogy
1582 — PUCK BUG a malevolent spectre, a bugbear → obs.
1584 — SPOORN — SPURN a spectre or phantom; an evil spirit → obs.
1591 — VISARD — VIZARD a spectre, a phantasm → obs.
1611 — SPECTRUM a spectre; an apparition or phantom
1616 — APPARITION a spectre, phantom, or ghost
1616 — SHADE a spectre, a phantom
1619 — IDOLUM an image or unsubstantial appearance; a spectre or phantom; a mental image, an idea
1637 — RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES a spectre, a hobgoblin; a nursery bugbear; a bogey used to frighten children → Eng. & Amer. dial.
1651 — LARVA a disembodied spirit; a ghost, a hobgoblin, a spectre → obs.
1658 — SPECTRAL a spectre; an apparition → obs.
1700 — BOODIE a spectre, a phantom; a bogeyman; an imaginary evil or frightening spirit or creature → Sc.
1745 — BODACH a spectre, a hobgoblin → Sc.
1781 — DOBBIE a household sprite or apparition supposed to haunt certain premises or localities, with powers of either good or evil; a ghost, a spectre → Eng. dial.
1790 — WAITH the spectral appearance of a person just before or after death; a ghost → Eng. dial.
1801 — SPOOK a spectre, an apparition, a ghost → colloq.
1828 — WAG-AT-THE-WALL ‘a spectre supposed to haunt the kitchen, wagging backwards and forwards before the death of one of the family’ → Sc. (Bk.)
1829 — SOWLTH a formless, luminous spectre
1838 — ANAM a spectre, a ghost → Sc., obs.
1847 — GYTRASH a spectre, an apparition, a ghost, generally taking the form of an animal → Eng. dial.
1852 — THIVISH a spectre, a ghost, an apparition → Irish
1897 — OLD BOGEY the devil; an apparition, a spectre → Eng. dial.
1934 — OLD RAWHEAD AND BLOODY BONES a spectre, a hobgoblin; a nursery bugbear → Amer. dial.
1966 — RAW-HEELS AND BLOODYBONES a spectre, a hobgoblin; a nursery bugbear → Amer. dial.
1966 — REDHEAD-BLOODYBONES a spectre, a hobgoblin; a nursery bugbear → Amer. dial.
1970 — BLOODYBONES a spectre, a hobgoblin → Amer. dial.
1991 — SPECTROPHOBIA an abnormal fear of spectres or phantoms (Bk.)
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