(n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition,
estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
(v. t.) To bear; to support.
(v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
(v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift
a drove of cattle.
(v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for
raising or bearing.
(v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the
fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
(v. t.) To live by theft.
(n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
(n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a
long lift.
(n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a
wagon.
(n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
(n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
(n.) A handle.
(n.) An exercising machine.
(n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in
canals.
(n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
(n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard
below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
(n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
(n.) A layer of leather in the heel.
(n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the
impulse is given.
