| • | 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. |