yield the ghost

verb

verb

Idiomatic To give up the ghost.

and often did I strive / To yield the ghost: but still the envious flood / Stopped in my soul, and would not let it forthc. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iv], pages line36-38:

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