'Lifting machine' definitions:

Definition of 'Lifting machine'

From: GCIDE
  • Lifting \Lift"ing\, a. Used in, or for, or by, lifting. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'lifting machine'

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  • Health \Health\ (h[e^]lth), n. [OE. helthe, AS. h[=ae]l[thorn], fr. h[=a]l hale, sound, whole. See Whole.]
  • 1. The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain. [1913 Webster]
  • There is no health in us. --Book of Common Prayer. [1913 Webster]
  • Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. "Come, love and health to all." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Bill of health. See under Bill.
  • Health lift, a machine for exercise, so arranged that a person lifts an increasing weight, or moves a spring of increasing tension, in such a manner that most of the muscles of the body are brought into gradual action; -- also called lifting machine.
  • Health officer, one charged with the enforcement of the sanitary laws of a port or other place.
  • To drink a health. See under Drink. [1913 Webster]