Lift (lĭft), v. i. 1. To try to raise something; to exert the strength for raising or bearing.
Strained by lifting at a weight too heavy. Locke.
2. To rise; to become or appear raised or elevated; as, the fog lifts; the land lifts to a ship approaching it.
3. [See Lift, v. t., 5.] To live by theft. Spenser.