Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 31
Lifespan (n.) （生物的）壽命，預期生命期限；（物的）使用期限 The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" [syn: {life}, {lifetime}, {life- time}, {lifespan}].
Lifespring (n.) Spring or source of life.
Lifestring (n.) A nerve, or string, that is imagined to be essential to life. -- Daniel.
Lifetime (n.) （有時與代名詞的所有格連用）一生，終身；（事物的）使用期，壽命 [S] The time that life continues.
Lifetime (n.) The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death); "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" [syn: {life}, {lifetime}, {life-time}, {lifespan}].
Lifetime (a.) 一生的，終身的 For the duration of a person’s life.
// He has a lifetime membership in the organization.
Life-weary (a.) Weary of living. -- Shak.
Liflode (n.) Livelihood. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Lift (n.) The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. [Obs. or Scot.]
Lifted (imp. & p. p.) of Lift.
Lifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lift.
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.
The Roman virtues lift up mortal man. -- Addison.
Lest, being lifted up with pride. -- 1 Tim. iii. 6.
Lift (v. t.) To bear; to support. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Lift (v. t.) To collect, as moneys due; to raise.
Lift (v. t.) To steal; to carry off by theft (esp. cattle); as, to lift a drove of cattle.
Note: In old writers, lift is sometimes used for lifted.
He ne'er
lift up his hand but conquered. -- Shak.
To lift up, To raise or elevate; in the Scriptures, specifically,
to elevate upon the cross. -- John viii. 28.
To lift up the eyes. To look up; to raise the eyes, as in prayer. -- Ps. cxxi. 1.
To lift up the feet, To come speedily to one's relief. -- Ps. lxxiv. 3.
To lift up the hand. (a) To take an oath. -- Gen. xiv. 22.
To lift up the hand. (b) To pray. -- Ps. xxviii. 2.
To lift up the hand. (c) To engage in duty. -- Heb. xii. 12.
To lift up the hand against, To rebel against; to assault; to attack; to injure; to oppress. -- Job xxxi. 21.
To lift up one's head, To cause one to be exalted or to rejoice. -- Gen. xl. 13. -- Luke xxi. 28.
To lift up the heel against, To treat with insolence or unkindness. -- John xiii.18.
To lift up the voice, To cry aloud; to call out. -- Gen. xxi. 16.
Lift (v. i.) To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. -- Locke.
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. t.) To steal; also, to live by theft. -- Spenser.
Lift (n.) Act of lifting; also, that which is lifted.
Lift (n.) The space or distance through which anything is lifted; as, a long lift. -- Bacon.
Lift (n.) Help; assistance, as by lifting. Hence: A ride in a vehicle, given by the vehicle's owner to another person as a favor -- usually in "give a lift" or "got a lift"; as, to give one a lift in a wagon; Jack gave me a lift into town. [Colloq.]
The goat gives the fox a lift. -- L'Estrange.
Lift (n.) That by means of which a person or thing lifts or is lifted ; as:
Lift (n.) A hoisting machine; an elevator; a dumb waiter. [Chiefly Brit.]
Lift (n.) A handle.
Lift (n.) An exercising machine.
Lift (n.) A rise; a degree of elevation; as, the lift of a lock in canals.
Lift (n.) A lift gate. See Lift gate, below. [Prov. Eng.]
Lift (n.) (Naut.) 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.) (Mach.) One of the steps of a cone pulley.
Lift (n.) (Shoemaking) A layer of leather in the heel.
Lift (n.) (Horology) That portion of the vibration of a balance during which the impulse is given.
Lift (n.) A brightening of the spirits; encouragement; as, the campaign workers got a lift from the President's endorsement.
Dead lift. See under Dead. -- Swift.
Lift bridge, A kind of drawbridge, the movable part of which is lifted, instead of being drawn aside.
Lift gate, A gate that is opened by lifting.
Lift hammer. See Tilt hammer.
Lift lock, A canal lock.
Lift pump, A lifting pump.
Lift tenter (Windmills), A governor for regulating the speed by adjusting the sails, or for adjusting the action of grinding machinery according to the speed.
Lift wall (Canal Lock), The cross wall at the head of the lock.
Lift (n.) The act of giving temporary assistance.
Lift (n.) The component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity [syn: aerodynamic lift, lift].
Lift (n.) The event of something being raised upward; "an elevation of the temperature in the afternoon"; "a raising of the land resulting from volcanic activity" [syn: elevation, lift, raising].
Lift (n.) A wave that lifts the surface of the water or ground [syn: lift, rise].
Lift (n.) A powered conveyance that carries skiers up a hill [syn: ski tow, ski lift, lift].
Lift (n.) A device worn in a shoe or boot to make the wearer look taller or to correct a shortened leg.
Lift (n.) One of the layers forming the heel of a shoe or boot.
Lift (n.) Lifting device consisting of a platform or cage that is raised and lowered mechanically in a vertical shaft in order to move people from one floor to another in a building [syn: elevator, lift].
Lift (n.) Plastic surgery to remove wrinkles and other signs of aging from your face; an incision is made near the hair line and skin is pulled back and excess tissue is excised; "some actresses have more than one face lift" [syn: face lift, facelift, lift, face lifting, cosmetic surgery, rhytidectomy, rhytidoplasty, nip and tuck].
Lift (n.) Transportation of people or goods by air (especially when other means of access are unavailable) [syn: airlift, lift].
Lift (n.) A ride in a car; "he gave me a lift home".
Lift (n.) The act of raising something; "he responded with a lift of his eyebrow"; "fireman learn several different raises for getting ladders up" [syn: lift, raise, heave].
Lift (v.) Raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load" [syn: raise, lift, elevate, get up, bring up] [ant: bring down, get down, let down, lower, take down].
Lift (v.) Take hold of something and move it to a different location; "lift the box onto the table".
Lift (v.) Move upwards; "lift one's eyes" [syn: lift, raise].
Lift (v.) Move upward; "The fog lifted"; "The smoke arose from the forest fire"; "The mist uprose from the meadows" [syn: rise, lift, arise, move up, go up, come up, uprise] [ant: come down, descend, fall, go down].
Lift (v.) Make audible; "He lifted a war whoop".
Lift (v.) Cancel officially; "He revoked the ban on smoking"; "lift an embargo"; "vacate a death sentence" [syn: revoke, annul, lift, countermand, reverse, repeal, overturn, rescind, vacate].
Lift (v.) Make off with belongings of others [syn: pilfer, cabbage, purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook, sneak, filch, nobble, lift].
Lift (v.) Raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help; "hoist the bicycle onto the roof of the car" [syn: hoist, lift, wind].
Lift (v.) Invigorate or heighten; "lift my spirits"; "lift his ego" [syn: raise, lift].
Lift (v.) Raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty" [syn: lift, raise, elevate].
Lift (v.) Take off or away by decreasing; "lift the pressure".
Lift (v.) Rise up; "The building rose before them" [syn: rise, lift, rear].
Lift (v.) Pay off (a mortgage).
Lift (v.) Take without referencing from someone else's writing or speech; of intellectual property [syn: plagiarize, plagiarise, lift].
Lift (v.) Take illegally; "rustle cattle" [syn: rustle, lift].
Lift (v.) Fly people or goods to or from places not accessible by other means; "Food is airlifted into Bosnia" [syn: airlift, lift].
Lift (v.) Take (root crops) out of the ground; "lift potatoes".
Lift (v.) Call to stop the hunt or to retire, as of hunting dogs.
Lift (v.) Rise upward, as from pressure or moisture; "The floor is lifting slowly".
Lift (v.) Put an end to; "lift a ban"; "raise a siege" [syn: lift, raise].
Lift (v.) Remove (hair) by scalping.
Lift (v.) Remove from a seedbed or from a nursery; "lift the tulip bulbs".
Lift (v.) Remove from a surface; "the detective carefully lifted some fingerprints from the table".
Lift (v.) Perform cosmetic surgery on someone's face [syn: face-lift, lift].
Liftable (a.) Such as can be lifted.
Lifter (n.) One who, or that which, lifts.
Lifter (n.) A tool for lifting loose sand from the mold; also, a contrivance attached to a cope, to hold the sand together when the cope is lifted.
Lifting (a.) Used in, or for, or by, lifting.
Lig (v. i.) To recline; to lie still.
Ligament (n.) Anything that ties or unites one thing or part to another; a bandage; a bond.
Ligament (n.) A tough band or plate of dense, fibrous, connective tissue or fibrocartilage serving to unite bones or form joints.
Ligament (n.) A band of connective tissue, or a membranous fold, which supports or retains an organ in place; as, the gastrophrenic ligament, connecting the diaphragm and stomach.
Ligamental (a.) Alt. of Ligamentous.
Ligamentous (a.) Composing a ligament; of the nature of a ligament; binding; as, a strong ligamentous membrane.
Ligan (n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam.
Ligate (v. t.) To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.
Ligation (n.) The act of binding, or the state of being bound.
Ligation (n.) That which binds; bond; connection.
Ligator (n.) An instrument for ligating, or for placing and fastening a ligature.
Ligature (n.) The act of binding.
Ligature (n.) Anything that binds; a band or bandage.
Ligature (n.) (Surg.) A thread or string for tying the blood vessels, particularly the arteries, to prevent hemorrhage.
Ligature (n.) (Surg.) A thread or wire used to remove tumors, etc.
Ligature (n.) The state of being bound or stiffened; stiffness; as, the ligature of a joint.
Ligature (n.) Impotence caused by magic or charms. [Obs.]
Ligature (n.) (Mus.) A curve or line connecting notes; a slur.
Ligature (n.) (Print.) A double character, or a type consisting of two or more letters or characters united, as [ae], [filig], [ffllig].
Ligature (v. t.) (Surg.) To ligate; to tie.
Lige (v. t. & i.) To lie; to tell lies.
Ligeance (n.) The connection between sovereign and subject by which they were mutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice, the latter to faithful service; allegiance.
Ligement (n.) See Ledgment.
Ligge (v. i.) To lie or recline.
Ligger (n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a.
Ligger (a.) See Ledger, 2.
Light (n.) That agent, force, or action in nature by the operation of which upon the organs of sight, objects are rendered visible or luminous.
Light (n.) That which furnishes, or is a source of, light, as the sun, a star, a candle, a lighthouse, etc.
Light (n.) The time during which the light of the sun is visible; day; especially, the dawn of day.
Light (n.) The brightness of the eye or eyes.
Light (n.) The medium through which light is admitted, as a window, or window pane; a skylight; in architecture, one of the compartments of a window made by a mullion or mullions.
Light (n.) Life; existence.
Light (n.) Open view; a visible state or condition; public observation; publicity.
Light (n.) The power of perception by vision.
Light (n.) That which illumines or makes clear to the mind; mental or spiritual illumination; enlightenment; knowledge; information.
Light (n.) Prosperity; happiness; joy; felicity.
Light (n.) The manner in which the light strikes upon a picture; that part of a picture which represents those objects upon which the light is supposed to fall; the more illuminated part of a landscape or other scene; -- opposed to shade. Cf. Chiaroscuro.
Light (n.) Appearance due to the particular facts and circumstances presented to view; point of view; as, to state things fairly and put them in the right light.
Light (n.) One who is conspicuous or noteworthy; a model or example; as, the lights of the age or of antiquity.
Light (n.) A firework made by filling a case with a substance which burns brilliantly with a white or colored flame; as, a Bengal light.
Light (a.) Having light; not dark or obscure; bright; clear; as, the apartment is light.
Light (a.) White or whitish; not intense or very marked; not of a deep shade; moderately colored; as, a light color; a light brown; a light complexion.
Lighted (imp. & p. p.) of Light.
Lit () of Light.
Lighting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Light.
Light (v. t.) To set fire to; to cause to burn; to set burning; to ignite; to kindle; as, to light a candle or lamp; to light the gas; -- sometimes with up.
If a thousand candles be all lighted from one. -- Hakewill.
And the largest lamp is lit. -- Macaulay.
Absence might cure it, or a second mistress Light up another flame, and put out this. -- Addison.
Light (v. t.) To give light to; to illuminate; to fill with light; to spread over with light; -- often with up.
Ah, hopeless, lasting flames! like those that burn To light the dead. -- Pope.
One hundred years ago, to have lit this theater as brilliantly as it is now lighted would have cost, I suppose, fifty pounds. -- F. Harrison.
The sun has set, and Vesper, to supply His absent beams, has lighted up the sky. -- Dryden.
Light (v. t.) To attend or conduct with a light; to show the way to by means of a light.
His bishops lead him forth, and light him on. -- Landor.
To light a fire, To kindle the material of a fire.
Light (v. i.) To become ignited; to take fire; as, the match will not light.
Light (v. i.) To be illuminated; to receive light; to brighten; -- with up; as, the room lights up very well.
Light (a.) Having little, or comparatively little, weight; not tending to the center of gravity with force; not heavy.
These weights did not exert their natural gravity, . . . insomuch that I could not guess which was light or heavy whilst I held them in my hand. -- Addison.
Light (a.) Not burdensome; easy to be lifted, borne, or carried by physical strength; as, a light burden, or load.
Ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. -- Matt. xi. 29, 30.
Light (a.) Easy to be endured or performed; not severe; not difficult; as, a light affliction or task. -- Chaucer.
Light sufferings give us leisure to complain. -- Dryden.
Light (a.) Easy to be digested; not oppressive to the stomach; as, light food; also, containing little nutriment.
Light (a.) Not heavily armed; armed with light weapons; as, light troops; a troop of light horse.
Light (a.) Not encumbered; unembarrassed; clear of impediments; hence, active; nimble; swift.
Unmarried men are best friends, best masters . . . but not always best subjects, for they are light to run away. -- Bacon.
Light (a.) Not heavily burdened; not deeply laden; not sufficiently ballasted; as, the ship returned light.
Light (a.) Slight; not important; as, a light error. -- Shak.
Light (a.) Well leavened; not heavy; as, light bread.
Light (a.) Not copious or heavy; not dense; not inconsiderable; as, a light rain; a light snow; light vapors.
Light (a.) Not strong or violent; moderate; as, a light wind.
Light (a.) Not pressing heavily or hard upon; hence, having an easy, graceful manner; delicate; as, a light touch; a light style of execution.
Light (a.) Easy to admit influence; inconsiderate; easily influenced by trifling considerations; unsteady; unsettled; volatile; as, a light, vain person; a light mind.
There is no greater argument of a light and inconsiderate person than profanely to scoff at religion. -- Tillotson.
Light (a.) Indulging in, or inclined to, levity; wanting dignity or solemnity; trifling; gay; frivolous; airy; unsubstantial.
Seneca can not be too heavy, nor Plautus too light. -- Shak.
Specimens of New England humor laboriously light and lamentably mirthful. -- Hawthorne.
Light (a.) Not quite sound or normal; somewhat impaired or deranged; dizzy; giddy.
Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain ? -- Shak.
Light (a.) Easily bestowed; inconsiderately rendered.
To a fair semblance doth light faith annex. -- Spenser.
Light (a.) Wanton; unchaste; as, a woman of light character.
A light wife doth make a heavy husband. -- Shak.