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Webster 1913 Edition


Loft

Loft

,
Adj.
Lofty; proud.
[R. & Obs.]
Surrey.

Loft

,
Verb.
T.
To make or furnish with a loft; to cause to have loft;
as, a
lofted
house; a
lofted
golf-club head
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Loft

LOFT

,
Noun.
1.
Properly, an elevation; hence, in a building, the elevation of one story or floor above another; hence, a floor above another; as the second loft; third loft; fourth loft. Spenser seems to have used the word for the highest floor or top, and this may have been its original signification.
2.
A high room or place.