the sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.-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.-to raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.-to bear; to support.-to collect, as moneys due; to raise.-to steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.-to try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.-to rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.-to live by theft.-act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.-the space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.-help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.-that by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted-a hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.-a handle.-an exercising machine.-a rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.-a lift gate. see lift gate, below.-a rope leading from the masthead to the extremity of a yard below; -- used for raising or supporting the end of the yard.-one of the steps of a cone pulley.-a layer of leather in the heel.-that portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.