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Webster 1913 Edition

Spook

Spook

(spoōk)
,
Noun.
[D.
spook
; akin to G.
spuk
, Sw.
spöke
, Dan.
spögelse
a specter,
spöge
to play, sport, joke,
spög
a play, joke.]
1.
A spirit; a ghost; an apparition; a hobgoblin.
[Written also
spuke
.]
Ld. Lytton.
2.
(Zool.)
The chimaera.

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