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The time that life continues.

Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ng 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.

Such as can be lifted.

One who, or that which, lifts.

Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. (Mach.) (a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it to a high level. (b) A pump wh…

The division of Cephalopoda in which the arms are furnished with cup-shaped suckers, as the cuttlefishes, squids, and octopus; the Dibranchiata. See Cephalopoda.

Furnished with fleshy cups for adhering to bodies, as cuttlefish, etc.

Shaped like a shallow; saucer-shaped; as, an acetabuliform calyx. Gray.

Needle-shaped; acicular.

On my life; dearly. [Obs.] "I love that sport alife." Beau. & Fl.

Having wings, winged; aligerous. [R.]

Wing-shaped; winglike.

Capable of being alkalified, or converted into an alkali.

To convert into an alkali; to give alkaline properties to.

Having the form of alveoli, or little sockets, cells, or cavities.

To amplify. [Obs.] Bailey.

The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.

Amplificatory.

Serving to amplify or enlarge; amplificative. Morell.