Phăn'tom, n.

n. [Fr. fantôme, It. fantasma, fantasima, from Lat. phantasma. See PHANTASM.] That which has only an apparent existence; an apparition; a specter; a ghost; an airy spirit. “Strange phantoms rising as the mists arise.” Pope.

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight. Wordsworth.

Phantom corn, corn that grows very slender; lank or light corn.