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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…

To recline; to lie still. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer. Spenser.

LIGAMENT n. 3 definitions

tes one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond. Hawthorne. Interwoven is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts. Washington.

LIGAMENTAL; LIGAMENTOUS a.

Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.

Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam. [Written also lagan.] Blackstone.

To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.

LIGATION n. 2 definitions

That which binds; bond; connection. Tied with tape, and sealed at each fold and ligation. Sir W. Scott.

An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.

LIGATURE n. 9 definitions

The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.

To lie; to tell lies. [Obs.]

on and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancy and liegance.] Chaucer.

To lie or recline. [Obs.] Chaucer.

LIGGER n. 2 definitions

A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.

LIGHT n. 47 definitions

That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc. Then he called for a light, and sprang in. Acts xvi. 29. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night. Gen. i. 16.

LIGHT SIGNALS n.

A system of signaling in which balls of red and green fire are fired from a pistol, the arrangement in groups denoting numbers having a code significance.

The distance over which light can travel in a year's time; -- used as a unit in expressing stellar distances. It is more than 63,000 times as great as the distance from the earth to the sun.

Armed with light weapons or accouterments.

LIGHT-FINGERED a.

Dexterous in taking and conveying away; thievish; pilfering; addicted to petty thefts. Fuller.