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Ballooning Spider :: Ballooning spider () A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.

Aloft :: Aloft (prep.) Above; on top of.

High-raised :: High-raised (a.) Elevated; raised aloft; upreared.

Mount :: Mount (v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.

Pensible :: Pensible (a.) Held aloft.

Onloft :: Onloft (adv.) Aloft; above ground.

Mount :: Mount (n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

Top :: Top (v. i.) To rise aloft; to be eminent; to tower; as, lofty ridges and topping mountains..

A- :: A- () A, as a prefix to English words, is derived from various sources. (1) It frequently signifies on or in (from an, a forms of AS. on), denoting a state, as in afoot, on foot, abed, amiss, asleep, aground, aloft, away (AS. onweg), and analogically, ablaze, atremble, etc. (2) AS. of off, from, as in adown (AS. ofd/ne off the dun or hill). (3) AS. a- (Goth. us-, ur-, Ger. er-), usually giving an intensive force, and sometimes the sense of away, on, back, as in arise, abide, ago. (4) Old English

Uplift :: Uplift (v. t.) To lift or raise aloft; to raise; to elevate; as, to uplift the arm; to uplift a rock..

Aheight :: Aheight (adv.) Aloft; on high.

Upbear :: Upbear (v. t.) To bear up; to raise aloft; to support in an elevated situation; to sustain.

Overhead :: Overhead (adv.) Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith.

Heft :: Heft (v. t.) To heave up; to raise aloft.

Low :: Low (adv.) In a low position or manner; not aloft; not on high; near the ground.

Lay :: Lay (v. i.) To take a position; to come or go; as, to lay forward; to lay aloft..

Aloft :: Aloft (adv.) On high; in the air; high above the ground.

Soar :: Soar (v. i.) To fly aloft, as a bird; to mount upward on wings, or as on wings..

Parbuckle :: Parbuckle (n.) A kind of purchase for hoisting or lowering a cylindrical burden, as a cask. The middle of a long rope is made fast aloft, and both parts are looped around the object, which rests in the loops, and rolls in them as the ends are hauled up or payed out..

Towering :: Towering (a.) Very high; elevated; rising aloft; as, a towering height..

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