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Elevate :: Elevate (v. t.) To bring from a lower place to a higher; to lift up; to raise; as, to elevate a weight, a flagstaff, etc..

Elevator :: Elevator (n.) A cage or platform and the hoisting machinery in a hotel, warehouse, mine, etc., for conveying persons, goods, etc., to or from different floors or levels; -- called in England a lift; the cage or platform itself..

Lifter :: 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..

Race :: Race (v. i.) To run too fast at times, as a marine engine or screw, when the screw is lifted out of water by the action of a heavy sea..

Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

Duty :: Duty (n.) The efficiency of an engine, especially a steam pumping engine, as measured by work done by a certain quantity of fuel; usually, the number of pounds of water lifted one foot by one bushel of coal (94 lbs. old standard), or by 1 cwt. (112 lbs., England, or 100 lbs., United States)..

Lift :: 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..

Relieve :: Relieve (v. t.) To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise..

Hoistaway :: Hoistaway (n.) A mechanical lift. See Elevator.

Extol :: Extol (v. t.) To place on high; to lift up; to elevate.

Attollent :: Attollent (a.) Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle..

Uplift :: Uplift (n.) A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds, dislocations, and the like..

Lift :: Lift (n.) An exercising machine.

Gallop :: Gallop (v. i.) A mode of running by a quadruped, particularly by a horse, by lifting alternately the fore feet and the hind feet, in successive leaps or bounds..

Shoplifting :: Shoplifting (n.) Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.

Superlative :: Superlative (a.) Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character..

Clifted :: Clifted (a.) Broken; fissured.

Upstare :: Upstare (v. i.) To stare or stand upward; hence, to be uplifted or conspicuous..

Leash :: Leash (n.) A string with a loop at the end for lifting warp threads, in a loom..

Hoist :: Hoist (n.) That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.

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