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A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft.

An iron club used in lofting the ball; -- called also lofting iron.

In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.

The state or quality of being lofty.

Same as Lofter.

Lifted high up; having great height; towering; high. See lofty Lebanon his head advance. Pope.

On high; in the air; high above the ground. "He steers his flight aloft." Milton.

An upper loft; a garret; the highest room in a building. Dryden. Swift.

A loft for corn; a granary.

A loft or scaffold for hay.

Aloft; above ground. [Obs.] She kept her father's life onloft. Chaucer.

forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofdüne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense…

Loftiness of skull.

Rising aloft in air; high; lofty; as, aërial spires.

Aloft; on high. [Obs.] "Look up aheight." Shak.

pearance, and bearing of a person; mien; demeanor; as, the air of a youth; a heavy air; a lofty air. "His very air." Shak.

The lofty Brazil-nut tree.

Below; in a lower part. "Aloft, and then alow." Dryden.

in. Specifically, in the plural, the highest chain of mountains in Europe, containing the lofty mountains of Switzerland, etc. Nor breath of vernal air from snowy alp. Milton. Hills peep o'er hills, and alps on alps arise. Pope.

Of or pertaining to the Alps, or to any lofty mountain; as, Alpine snows; Alpine plants.