LIFT

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

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.

To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up. The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. Addison. Lest, being lifted up with pride. I Tim. iii. 6.

To bear; to support. [Obs.] Spenser.

To collect, as moneys due; to raise.

To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.

To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing. Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.

To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

To live by theft. Spenser.

Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. Bacon.

Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.] The goat gives the fox a lift. L'Estrange.

That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted; as:

A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

An exercising machine.

A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.

A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]

A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.

One of the steps of a cone pulley.

A layer of leather in the heel.

That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given. Saunier. Dead lift. See under Dead. Swift. -- Lift bridge, a kind of drawbridge, the movable part of which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside. -- Lift gate, a gate that is opened by lifting. -- Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer. -- Lift lock, a canal lock. -- Lift pump, a lifting pump. -- Lift tenter (Windmills), a governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed. -- Lift wall (Canal Lock), the cross wall at the head of the lock.