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English Dictionary: up/lift by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Uplift \Up*lift"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Uplifting}.]
      To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift
      the arm; to uplift a rock. --Cowper.
  
               Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift
               above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed.
                                                                              --Milton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Uplift \Up"lift`\, n. (Geol.)
      A raising or upheaval of strata so as to disturb their
      regularity and uniformity, and to occasion folds,
      dislocations, and the like.
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