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.

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 Health n.
 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.
    There is no health in us.   --Book of Common Prayer.
    Though health may be enjoyed without gratitude, it can not be sported with without loss, or regained by courage.   --Buckminster.
 2. A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast. “Come, love and health to all.”
 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.

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