spirit

Definitions

• The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose.
• A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.
• Enthusiasm.
• The manner or style of something.
• (usually) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits (spirits) is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
• Energy; ardour.
• One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.
• Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.
• (obsolete) Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
• (obsolete) A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
• Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.
• (alchemy) Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
• (dyeing) stannic Stannic chloride.