Word Meanings - LIFTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts.
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- LIFT
The sky; the atmosphere; the firmament. - WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - WHICH
the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. - LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant - ATTACH
tach, nail, E. tack a small nail, tack to fasten. Cf. Attack, and see 1. To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like. The shoulder blade is . . . attached only to - LOOSENESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. - ATTACHABLE
Capable of being attached; esp., liable to be taken by writ or precept. - TOGETHER
togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can - ATTACHE
One attached to another person or thing, as a part of a suite or staff. Specifically: One attached to an embassy. - LIFTING
Used in, or for, or by, lifting. Lifting bridge, a lift bridge. -- Lifting jack. See 2d Jack, 5. -- Lifting machine. See Health lift, under Health. -- Lifting pump. A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved piston, instead of a solid piston, - LOOSELY
In a loose manner. - LOOSENER
One who, or that which, loosens. - LIFTER
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. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, lifts. - CONTRIVANCE
1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning. The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley. 2. The thing contrived, invented, - LIFTABLE
Such as can be lifted. - ATTACHMENT
1. The act attaching, or state of being attached; close adherence or affection; fidelity; regard; anas, an attachment to a friend, or to a party. 2. That by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. - REATTACHMENT
The act of reattaching; a second attachment. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - SHOPLIFTER
One who steals anything in a shop, or takes goods privately from a shop; one who, under pretense of buying goods, takes occasion to steal. - ALTOGETHER
1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. - OUTLOOSE
A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden. - FORELIFT
To lift up in front. - CLIFTED
Broken; fissured. Climb the Andeclifted side. Grainger. - SHOPLIFTING
Larceny committed in a shop; the stealing of anything from a shop.