in commerce, the border of cloth or stuff; serving not only to show their quality, but to preserve them from being torn in the operations of fulling, dyeing, &c.—Lift is used on various occasions; but chiefly by gardeners for securing their wall-trees.

Architecture, a little square moulding, otherwise called a fillet, lisel, &c. See Architecture.

List, is also used, to signify the enclosed field or ground wherein the ancient knights held their jousts and combats. It was so called, as being hemmed round with pales, barriers, or stakes, as with a lift. Some of these were double, one for each cavalier; which kept them apart, so that they could not come nearer each other than a spear's length. See Just, Tournament, Duel, &c.

Civil List, in the British polity. The expenses defrayed by the civil list are those that in any shape relate to civil government; as, the expences of the household; all salaries to officers of state, to the judges, and every one of the king's servants, the appointments to foreign ambassadors; the maintenance of the queen and royal family; the king's private expences, or privy-purse; and other very numerous outgoings, as secret-service money, pensions, and other bounties: which sometimes have so far exceeded the revenues appointed for that purpose, that application has been made to parliament to discharge the debts contracted on the civil list; as particularly in 1724, when one million was granted for that purpose by the statute 11 Geo. I. c. 17. and, in 1769, when half a million was appropriated to the like uses by the statute 9 Geo. III. c. 34.

The civil list is indeed properly the whole of the king's revenue in his own distinct capacity; the rest being rather the revenue of the public, or its creditors, though collected and distributed again in the name and by the officers of the crown: it now standing in the same place, as the hereditary income did formerly; and as that has gradually diminished, the parliamentary appointments have increased. The whole revenue of Queen Elizabeth did not amount to more than 600,000l. a-year: that of King Charles I. was 800,000l. and the revenue voted for King Charles II. was 1,200,000l. though complaints were made (in the first years at least) that it did not amount to so much. But it must be observed, that under these sums were included all manner of public expences; among which Lord Clarendon, in his speech to the parliament, computed that the charge of the navy and land forces amounted annually to 800,000l. which was ten times more than before the former troubles. The same revenue, subject to the same charges, was settled on King James II.; but by the increase of trade, and more frugal management, it amounted on an average to 1,500,000l. per annum, (besides other additional customs granted by parliament, which produced an annual revenue of 400,000l.), out of which his fleet and army were maintained at the yearly expence of 1,100,000l. After the Revolution, when the parliament took into its own hands the annual support of the forces both maritime and military, a civil list revenue was settled on the new king and queen, amounting, with the hereditary duties, to 700,000l. per annum; and the fame was continued to Queen Anne and King George I.. That of King George II. was nominally augmented to 800,000l.*, and in fact was considerably more: but that of his present majesty is expressly limited to that sum; though 100,000l. hath been since added. And upon the whole, it is doubtless much better for the crown, and also for the people, to have the revenue settled upon the modern footing rather than the ancient. For the crown, because it is more certain, and collected with greater ease; for the people, because they are now delivered from the feudal hardships, and other odious branches of the prerogative. And though complaints have sometimes been made of the increase of the civil list, yet if we consider the sums that have been formerly granted, the limited extent under which it is now established, the revenues and prerogatives given up in lieu of it by the crown, the numerous branches of the present royal family, and (above all) the diminution of the value of money compared with what it was worth in the last century, we must acknowledge these complaints to be void of any rational foundation; and that it is impossible to support that dignity, which a king of Great Britain should maintain, with an income in any degree less than what is now established by parliament. See Revenue.

To List or Enlist Soldiers, to retain and enroll men as soldiers, either as volunteers, or by a kind of compulsion. Persons lifted must be carried within four days, but not sooner than 24 hours after, before the next justice of peace of any county, riding, city, or place, or chief magistrate of any city or town corporate (not being an officer in the army); and if before such justice or magistrate they dissent from such enlisting, and return the enlisting money, and also 20 shillings in lieu of all charges expended on them, they are to be discharged. But persons refusing or neglecting to return and pay such money within 24 hours, shall be deemed as duly lifted as if they had assented thereto before the proper magistrate; and they shall, in that case, be obliged to take the oath, or, upon refusal, they shall be confined by the officer who lifted them till they do take it.