lift

To raise or rise.

The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

You never lift a finger to help me!

To raise or rise.

Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

To steal.

Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side, And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

“Wilbert Cream is a ... what's the word?” I referred to the letter. “A kleptomaniac […] Does any thought occur to you?” “It most certainly does. I am thinking of your uncle's collection of old silver.” “Me, too.” “It presents a grave temptation to the unhappy young man.” “I don't know that I'd call him unhappy. He probably thoroughly enjoys lifting the stuff.”

To source directly without acknowledgement; to plagiarise.

Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).

To arrest (a person).

Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.

An act of lifting or raising.

The act of transporting someone in a vehicle; a ride; a trip.

He gave me a lift to the bus station.

Accordingly, in spite of many grumbles and remonstrances from Summerlee, I ordered an additional tube, which was placed with the other in his motor-car, for he had offered me a lift to Victoria.

Mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people between floors in a building.

Take the lift to the fourth floor.

Even the lift in which the three of them were whirled up to one of the upper floors of the huge building was to the girl a new and delightful experience. Daisy had always lived a simple, quiet life in the little country town where dwelt Old Aunt, and this was the first time a lift had come her way.

An upward force; especially, the force (generated by wings, rotary wings, or airfoils) that keeps aircraft aloft.

The difference in elevation between the upper pool and lower pool of a waterway, separated by lock.

Air.

The sky; the heavens; firmament; atmosphere.

No, no, Leddy! the sun maun be up in the lift whan I venture to her den.