| • | The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. |
| • | 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. |
| • | To bear; to support. |
| • | 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. |
| • | 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. |
| • | Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted. |
| • | The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. |
| • | Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. |
| • | That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted |
| • | A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter. |
| • | A handle. |
| • | An exercising machine. |
| • | A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals. |
| • | A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. |
| • | 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. |
