spirits

1. The soul of a person or other creature. What moves through experience into self-definition as souls purpose.
2. A supernatural being, often but not exclusively without physical form; ghost, fairy, angel.

   A wandering spirit haunts the island.

3. Enthusiasm.

   School spirit is at an all-time high.

4. The manner or style of something.

   In the spirit of forgiveness, we didn't press charges.

5. (usually in the plural) A volatile liquid, such as alcohol. The plural form spirits is a generic term for distilled alcoholic beverages.
6. Energy; ardour.
7. One who is vivacious or lively; one who evinces great activity or peculiar characteristics of mind or temper.

   a ruling spirit; a schismatic spirit

8. Temper or disposition of mind; mental condition or disposition; intellectual or moral state; often in the plural.

   to be cheerful, or in good spirits; to be down-hearted, or in bad spirits

9. Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.
10. A rough breathing; an aspirate, such as the letter h; also, a mark denoting aspiration.
11. Intent; real meaning; opposed to the letter, or formal statement.

    the spirit of an enterprise, or of a document

12. Any of the four substances: sulphur, sal ammoniac, quicksilver, and arsenic (or, according to some, orpiment).
13. (dyeing) Stannic chloride.

1. To carry off, especially in haste, secrecy, or mystery.
2. To animate with vigor; to excite; to encourage; to inspirit; sometimes followed by up.

   Civil dissensions often spirit the ambition of private men.

noun

Distilled alcoholic beverages.