Lift

·vt To live by theft.

II. Lift ·noun An exercising machine.

III. Lift ·noun A layer of leather in the heel.

IV. Lift ·noun A Handle.

V. Lift ·noun A lift gate. ·see Lift gate, below.

VI. Lift ·noun One of the steps of a cone pulley.

VII. Lift ·noun The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.

VIII. Lift ·noun Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

IX. Lift ·noun A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

X. Lift ·noun That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted.

XI. Lift ·vt To collect, as moneys due; to Raise.

XII. Lift ·noun A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

XIII. Lift ·vt To Bear; to Support.

XIV. Lift ·noun Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.

XV. Lift ·noun The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.

XVI. Lift ·vi To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

XVII. Lift ·noun That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.

XVIII. Lift ·vt To Steal; to carry off by theft (·esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

XIX. Lift ·vt To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, ·etc.;

— often with up.

XX. Lift ·noun A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below;

— used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

XXI. Lift ·vi To Rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

XXII. Lift ·vt To move in a direction opposite to that of gravitation; to Raise; to Elevate; to bring up from a lower place to a higher; to Upheave; sometimes implying a continued support or holding in the higher place;

— said of material things; as, to lift the foot or the hand; to lift a chair or a burden.