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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Loft n.
 1. That which is lifted up; an elevation. Hence, especially: (a) The room or space under a roof and above the ceiling of the uppermost story. (b) A gallery or raised apartment in a church, hall, etc.; as, an organ loft. (c) A floor or room placed above another; a story. especially, an upper story located in a building with a business below, often having no partitions, and in cities sometimes converted into living quarters, or used as studios for artists.
    Eutychus . . . fell down from the third loft.   --Acts xx. 9.
 2. Golf Pitch or slope of the face of a club (tending to drive the ball upward).
 On loft, aloft; on high.  Cf. Onloft. [Obs.]