Index of English words, starting with "li"

(1) - Lift (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
(2) - Lift (v. t.) 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.
(3) - Lift (v. t.) To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
(4) - Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.
(5) - Lift (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
(6) - Lift (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
(7) - Lift (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
(8) - Lift (v. i.) To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
(9) - Lift (v. t.) To live by theft.
(10) - Lift (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
(11) - Lift (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
(12) - Lift (n.) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
(13) - Lift (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
(14) - Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
(15) - Lift (n.) A handle.
(16) - Lift (n.) An exercising machine.
(17) - Lift (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
(18) - Lift (n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
(19) - Lift (n.) A rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.
(20) - Lift (n.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
(21) - Lift (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.
(22) - Lift (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.

(1) - Liftable (a.) Such as can be lifted.

(1) - Lifter (n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.
(2) - Lifter (n.) One who, or that which, lifts.

(1) - Ligament (n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
(2) - Ligament (n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
(3) - Ligament (n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.