Definition of Lifteng
Lift"ing, a. 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. (Mach.)
(a) A kind of pump having a bucket, or valved
piston, instead of a solid piston, for drawing water and lifting it
to a high level. (b) A pump which lifts the
water only to the top of the pump, or delivers it through a spout; a
lift pump. -- Lifting rod, a vertical rod
lifted by a rock shaft, and imparting motion to a puppet valve; --
used in the engines of river steamboats. -- Lifting
sail (Naut.), one which tends to lift a vessel's
bow out of water, as jibs and square foresails.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Face-lifting or face-lift is the plastic surgery for tightening facial tissues and improving the facial appearance.
- To modernize.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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