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A floor, loft, or story in a building; especially, a floor of a house, which forms a complete residence in itself.

Lofty elevation and excursion;a mounting; a soaas, a flight of imagination, ambition, folly. Could he have kept his spirit to that flight, He had been happy. Byron. His highest flights were indeed far below those of Taylor. Macaulay.

To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts.

A vessel of Anam, with two or three masts, lofty triangular sails, and in construction somewhat resembling a Chinese junk.

The use of lofty words or phrases; bombast; -- usually in a bad sense. The sin of grandiloquence or tall talking. Thackeray,

Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.

Holding a chief position; elevated: lofty: eminent; distingushed; formost; principal; as, great men; the great seal; the great marshal, etc. He doth object I am too great of birth. Shak.

d outpouring of anything; as, a gush of song from a bird. The gush of springs, An fall of lofty foundains. Byron.

t certain times. Ham. Nav. Encyc. Top hamper (Naut.), unnecessary spars and rigging kept aloft.

High; lofty; bold. [Obs. or Archaic] To measure the most haughty mountain's height. Spenser. Equal unto this haughty enterprise. Spenser

Lofty; haughty. [Obs.] Through support of countenance proud and hault. Spenser.

ay. Horse hayfork, a contrivance for unloading hay from the cart and depositing it in the loft, or on a mow, by horse power.

To heave up; to raise aloft. Inflamed with wrath, his raging blade he heft. Spenser.

r surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree; the sun is high.

Of lofty structure; tall. "High-built organs." Tennyson. The high-built elephant his castle rears. Creech.

Having lofty arches. "The high-embowed roof." Milton.

Having high antlers; bearing full-grown antlers aloft.

Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.

Having a lofty spirit; haughty. [Obs.] Shak.

The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.