(n.) An apparition of a person about to die; a wraith.
(n.) Sward; short grass.
(n.) See Swath.
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Wraith
Definition:
(n.) An apparition of a person in his exact likeness, seen before death, or a little after; hence, an apparition; a specter; a vision; an unreal image.
(n.) Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rolls-Royce, which is owned by the German carmaker BMW , said demand had been strong for the Wraith, a chunky, gas-guzzling two-door car priced at more than £210,000.
(2) Sales were boosted by strong orders for the Ghost Series II introduced in November and the Wraith, which has had its first full year of sales.
(3) BMW reports: Rolls-Royce continues to see strong customer demand for Wraith, significant orders for the recently announced Ghost Series II and good demand for the Phantom family of cars across the world.
(4) The tread of feet in the roads was dulled, and horses and guns moved like wraiths in the swirling mist.
(5) The new Rolls-Royce Wraith has been a stunning success in the super-luxury segment, setting new modern style and technology leadership benchmarks.
(6) Instead, he’s looking more like a man destined to return to Madison with a wad of Delta Sky Miles to haunt the capitol tunnels, a wraith occasionally seizing hapless passersby at underground crossroads and demanding they tell him if they’ve seen Ronald Reagan, what causes male-pattern baldness and how big Canada is.
(7) They hovered just above 3% today and could drop to 2.5% in coming months, said Wraith.
(8) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "children's blood".
(9) Carroll was reported in today's Daily Star to have sent texts to Steve Wraith, editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, claiming he felt he had being forced out of the club.
(10) A model poses with a Rolls-Royce Wraith limousine during the 13th Beijing International Automotive Exhibition this year.
(11) Rolls-Royce manufacturers the Wraith, Ghost and Phantom, its top-of-the-range model.
(12) Blood is splashed across his website and featured, for example, in a recent cartoon of the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was pictured as a green, wraith-like creature drinking greedily from an oversized cup labelled "Children's Blood".
(13) A synthetic peptide corresponding to residues 365-380 of the influenza nucleoprotein (NP365-380) has been previously shown to associate with class I major histocompatibility complex-encoded molecules and to stimulate cytotoxic T lymphocytes [Townsend, A. R. M., Rothbard, J., Gotch, F. M., Bahadur, G., Wraith, D. & McMichael, A. J.
(14) It sells more cars worth over £150,000 than any other manufacturer, and last year launched the Dawn, a convertible based on the Wraith.
(15) Last year was good for carmakers in the UK too – Rolls-Royce, albeit owned by BMW, sold more Wraiths, Ghosts and Phantoms around the world than at any time since it was founded more than a century ago.
(16) The conscious patients watch me warily as if I am some sort of wraith.
(17) Carroll's comments back up the content of texts he sent to friend and editor of the Toon Talk fanzine, Steve Wraith, as the transfer saga unfolded last night.
(18) Demand was high for Phantom and Ghost Rolls-Royce cars, and orders were strong for the new Wraith model, BMW said.
(19) They, of course, have benefitted as the stimulus measures from central banks push up asset prices [ source: the Bank of England ] If you fancy a Wraith, prices begin at around £230,320 .
(20) John Wraith of RBC Capital Markets expects the rally in the gilt market to continue for some time, although it will become a more "gradual rally".