To raise; elevate; increase; enhance.n. In architecture, same as haunch, 6: by older writers more especially applied to the lower part, above the springing, of three- and four- centered archesn. to a small arch by which a straight lintel is sometimes united to its jamb or impost.n. pl. Naut., falls of the fife-rails placed on balusters on the poop and quarterdeck down to the gangway.n. See hanse.