Wraith is a Linux application allowing the duplication of a drive or partition to a backup media for later restoration. The image may be restored to other drives as a method of disk duplication. It is provided as a bootable image.
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.
Sometimes, improperly, a spirit thought to preside over the waters; -- called also water wraith.
The ghostly "apparition" of a person on the verge of death. According to old traditions, it appears as the exact likeness of its human counterpart, and commonly reveals itself to the friends and family of the person who is about to die. If a person is unfortunate enough to see their own wraith, it is regarded as heralding death within a fortnight, or a span of two weeks. The tradition appears to have developed from the ancient belief that a person's soul is a precise duplicate of the physical form, and that it escapes the body when death is imminent. A variation of this spirit type is the "water wraith". See also "co-walker", "doppelganger", and "fetch".
From Scottish warth, a guardian angel; a ghost or the spectral figure of a person supposedly seen as a premonition just before death.
The spectral apparition of a living person.
A legendary ghost that brings misfortune or death to anyone who sees it. Sometimes a cloak-hooded figure with glowing red eyes.
a mental representation of some haunting experience; "he looked like he had seen a ghost"; "it aroused specters from his past"
a ghost or a thing of shadow
an apparition of a person who is still alive, seen as an omen that the person is about to die
an apparition, vision, or double of another living person
an interesting representation of evil
a non-corporeal undead monster existing in both the spiritual and material worlds simultaneously, and whose spirit has been enslaved by the necromancer to do his will
an undead spirit of a powerful, evil human
a parasitic spirit in nature
a spirit of unidentifiable origin and classification that appears as a floating grim reaper-like entity when it manifests in the mundane world
a spirit which has made an evil bargain in order to persist after natural death, or been forced involuntarily into its new undead state
A ghost of a living person which is often seen shortly before his or her death.
the shadow self (ghost) of a person who is alive; normally wraiths are seen during the dying process just before the person passes from the earthly realm. Some belief systems feel that the wraith of an individual is their guide during their crossing over. XENOGLOSSIA: the ability to speak or instantaneously master a new language.
a malevolent spirit that drains the life from its opponents.
Name for the drop-ship used to transport scout detachments to a planetary surface; it is capable of full cloak.
The word "wraith", marked by the Oxford English Dictionary as being "of obscure origin", is first attested in 1513, with the meaning of "ghost or spectre" (that is, an apparition of a living or once-living being, possibly as a portent of death). In 18th century Scotland it was applied to water spirits. Over time, it came to be used in a metaphoric sense to refer to wraith-like things, and to portents in general.
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the wraith is an undead creature. A wraith is an incorporeal creature born of evil and darkness, despising light and all living things. A wraith drains the constitution from living creatures, turning them into new wraiths upon death.