loft

noun10

1. •
   An attic or similar space (often used for storage) in the roof of a house or other building.
2. •
   Such an attic used as an atelier.
3. •
   A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.
4. •
   (US) A residential flat (apartment) on an upper floor of an apartment building.

   • Today, with a loft in Manhattan and a condo in Century City, they are the epitome of the bi-coastal couple. — 1989
5. •
   The pitch or slope of the face of a golf club (tending to drive the ball upward).
6. •
   Ellipsis of pigeon loft.

   • Releasing some of the 12,000 racing pigeons that had arrived by special train (in foreground) at Dumfries Station for a race to their home lofts in Lanarkshire and West Lothian — 1954
7. •
   The thickness of a soft object when not under pressure.
8. •
   A lofted drive.
9. •
   (no longer used) A floor or room placed above another.

   • Eutychus […] fell down from the third loft. — 1611
10. •
    (no longer used) Air, the air; the sky, the heavens.

verb5

1. •
   To propel high into the air.

   • Marouane Chamakh then spurned a great chance to kill the game off when he ran onto Andrey Arshavin's lofted through ball but shanked his shot horribly across the face of goal. — 2011
2. •
   To fly or travel through the air, as though propelled

   • When she saw houses lofting past her window, she ran to the child, who slept on a feather bed and she gathered the coverlet around them both. — 2004
3. •
   To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.
4. •
   To raise (a bed) on tall supports so that the space beneath can be used for something else.

   • Lofting a bed is much harder work than it seems, and pulling a nail out with the back of a hammer is much simpler than using your own nails. — 2010
5. •
   To furnish with a loft space.

   • Two sisters, one under fifteen years of age, have lofted the house, so as to have a room for themselves. — 1853

adjective1

1. •
   (no longer used, rare) Lofty; proud; haughty.

   • A heart, where dread was never so imprest To hide the thought that might the truth advance; In neither fortune loft, nor yet represt — 1542

noun1

1. •
   loss of fluid test