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Enhance :: Enhance (v. t.) To raise or lift up; to exalt.

Crane :: Crane (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up..

Lift :: Lift (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise..

Trapdoor :: Trapdoor (n.) A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof or floor.

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

Lift :: Lift (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift..

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..

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

Underheave :: Underheave (v. i.) To heave or lift from below.

Strain :: Strain (n.) A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury resulting; a sprain..

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

Assault :: Assault (n.) An apparently violent attempt, or willful offer with force or violence, to do hurt to another; an attempt or offer to beat another, accompanied by a degree of violence, but without touching his person, as by lifting the fist, or a cane, in a threatening manner, or by striking at him, and missing him. If the blow aimed takes effect, it is a battery..

Lift :: Lift (n.) A layer of leather in the heel.

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

Lifted :: Lifted (imp. & p. p.) of Lif.

Raise :: Raise (v. t.) To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight..

Uphold :: Uphold (v. t.) To hold up; to lift on high; to elevate.

Jack :: "Jack (v. t.) To move or lift, as a house, by means of a jack or jacks. See 2d Jack, n., 5..

Griff :: Griff (n.) An arrangement of parallel bars for lifting the hooked wires which raise the warp threads in a loom for weaving figured goods.

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