Lift \Lift\, n.

1. Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

2. The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. --Bacon.

3. Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon. [Colloq.]

The goat gives the fox a lift. --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), n. [AS. lyft air. See Loft.]

The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lifting.]

[Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw. lyfta to lift, Dan. l["o]fte, G. l["u]ften; -- prop., to raise into the air. See Loft, and cf. 1st Lift.]

1. 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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Lift \Lift\ (l[i^]ft), v. i.

1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.

Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. --Locke.

2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.

3. [See Lift, v. t., 5.]

To live by theft. --Spenser.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)