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Same as Pumice.
A form of air pump in which exhaustion is produced by a stream of mercury running down a narrow tube, in the manner of an aspirator; -- named from the inventor.
a. & n. from pump.
A pump consisting of an endless chain, running over a drum or wheel by which it is moved, and dipping below the water to be raised. The chain has at intervals disks or lifts which fit the tube through which the ascending part passes and carry the water to the point of discharge.
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v. i.
To work, or raise water, a pump.
a.
Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.
v. t.
To draw water, or the like, from; to from water by means of a pump; as, they pumped the well dry; to pump a ship.
a.
Resembling, or having the structure of, pumice.
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Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.
n.
The for pump in the pit.
n.
See Pumpkin.
v. t.
To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
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of Pump
v. t.
To make smooth with pumice.
n.
That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by pumps.
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of Pump
n.
A very light porous volcanic scoria, usually of a gray color, the pores of which are capillary and parallel, giving it a fibrous structure. It is supposed to be produced by the disengagement of watery vapor without liquid or plastic lava. It is much used, esp. in the form of powder, for smoothing and polishing. Called also pumice stone.
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of Pumicate
n.
One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.
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of Pumicate
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