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Toss :: Toss (v. t.) To lift or throw up with a sudden or violent motion; as, to toss the head..

Visor :: Visor (n.) A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it..

Heave :: Heave (v. t.) To cause to move upward or onward by a lifting effort; to lift; to raise; to hoist; -- often with up; as, the wave heaved the boat on land..

Lift :: 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.

Elation :: Elation (n.) A lifting up by success; exaltation; inriation with pride of prosperity.

Heaving :: Heaving (n.) A lifting or rising; a swell; a panting or deep sighing.

Lift :: Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.

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..

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..

Rise :: Rise (v.) To be lifted, or to admit of being lifted, from the imposing stone without dropping any of the type; -- said of a form..

Bite :: Bite (v.) The hold which the short end of a lever has upon the thing to be lifted, or the hold which one part of a machine has upon another..

Cuddy :: Cuddy (n.) A lever mounted on a tripod for lifting stones, leveling up railroad ties, etc..

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

Elative :: Elative (a.) Raised; lifted up; -- a term applied to what is also called the absolute superlative, denoting a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support.

Lift :: Lift (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon..

Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Forelift :: Forelift (v. t.) To lift up in front.

Power :: Power (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end..

Horse Power :: Horse power () A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines and other prime movers for doing work. It is the power required for the performance of work at the rate of 33,000 English units of work per minute; hence, it is the power that must be exerted in lifting 33,000 pounds at the rate of one foot per minute, or 550 pounds at the rate of one foot per second, or 55 pounds at the rate of ten feet per second

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