These are the meanings of the letters LIFT when you unscramble them.
- Flit (a.)
Nimble; quick; swift. [Obs.] See Fleet.
- Flit (v. i.)
To be unstable; to be easily or often moved.
- Flit (v. i.)
To flutter; to rove on the wing.
- Flit (v. i.)
To move with celerity through the air; to fly away with a rapid motion; to dart along; to fleet; as, a bird flits away; a cloud flits along.
- Flit (v. i.)
To pass rapidly, as a light substance, from one place to another; to remove; to migrate.
- Flit (v. i.)
To remove from one place or habitation to another.
- Lift (n.)
A handle.
- Lift (n.)
A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter.
- Lift (n.)
A layer of leather in the heel.
- Lift (n.)
A lift gate. See Lift gate, below.
- Lift (n.)
A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
- 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.
- Lift (n.)
Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
- Lift (n.)
An exercising machine.
- Lift (n.)
Help; assistance, as by lifting; as, to give one a lift in a wagon.
- Lift (n.)
One of the steps of a cone pulley.
- Lift (n.)
That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted
- Lift (n.)
That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
- Lift (n.)
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament.
- Lift (n.)
The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift.
- Lift (v. i.)
To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
- Lift (v. i.)
To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
- Lift (v. t.)
To bear; to support.
- Lift (v. t.)
To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
- Lift (v. t.)
To live by theft.
- 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.
- Lift (v. t.)
To raise, elevate, exalt, improve, in rank, condition, estimation, character, etc.; -- often with up.
- Lift (v. t.)
To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.