lift

The fog eventually lifted, leaving the streets clear.

Kamal is out with twenty men to raise the Border side,

And he has lifted the Colonel's mare that is the Colonel's pride.

Based on a similarity across a range of Anglo-Indian entries in these three dictionaries, it appears that (along with other lexis) Barrère and Leland (1898) copied this entry from Hotten (1864), who had in turn lifted it directly from Stocqueler (1848).

Maybe the police lifted him and he's in Castlereagh [Interrogation Centre] because he'd been lifted three or four times previously and took to Castlereagh. They used to come in and raid the house and take him away.

The Gunners boss has been heavily criticised for his side's poor start to the Premier League season but this result helps lift the pressure.

Graham secured victory with five minutes left, coolly lifting the ball over Asmir Begovic.

She lifts twice a week at the gym.

strained by lifting at a weight too heavy

The Roman virtues lift up mortal man.

Th' earth him underneath

Did grone, as feeble so great load to lift.

Finally, we can lift a partial function into a regular (total) function that returns an Option or a Some(value) when the partial function is defined for the input argument or None when it isn't.

I lifted the hounds (hoping to catch the leading ones there) to the far side of Hallaton Thorns.