Lifespring to Light
Lifespring
(Life"spring`) n. Spring or source of life.
Lifestring
(Life"string`) n. A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. Daniel.
Lifetime
(Life"time`) n. The time that life continues.
Life-weary
(Life"-wea`ry) a. Weary of living. Shak.
Liflode
(Lif"lode) n. Livelihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Lift
(Lift) n. [AS. lyft air. See Loft.] The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
Lift
(Lift) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lifting.] [Icel. lypta, fr. lopt air; akin to Sw. lyfta
to lift, Dan. löfte, G. lüften; — 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.
2. To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; — often with up.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.
Addison.
Lest, being lifted up with pride.
1 Tim. iii. 6. 3. To bear; to support. [Obs.] Spenser.
4. To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
5. [Perh. a different word, and akin to Goth. hliftus thief, hlifan to steal, L. clepere, Gr. kle`ptein. Cf.
Shoplifter.] To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
In old writers, lift is sometimes used for lifted.
He ne'er lift up his hand but conquered.
Shak. To lift up, to raise or elevate; in the Scriptures, specifically, to elevate upon the cross. John viii. 28. —
To lift up the eyes. To look up; to raise the eyes, as in prayer. Ps. cxxi. 1. — To lift up the feet,
to come speedily to one's relief. Ps. lxxiv. 3. — To lift up the hand. (a) To take an oath. Gen. xiv.
22. (b) To pray. Ps. xxviii. 2. (c) To engage in duty. Heb. xii. 12. — To lift up the hand against,
to rebel against; to assault; to attack; to injure; to oppress. Job xxxi. 21. — To lift up one's head, to
cause one to be exalted or to rejoice. Gen. xl. 13. Luke xxi. 28. — To lift up the heel against,
to treat with insolence or unkindness. John xiii.18. — To lift up the voice, to cry aloud; to call out.
Gen. xxi. 16.
Lift
(Lift) 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.
Lift
(Lift), n.
