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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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PUMP, n. [The L. bombus is of the same family, as is the Eng.bombast.]
PUMP, v.i. To work a pump; to raise water with a pump.
PUMP, v.t. To raise with a pump; as, to pump water.
Chain-pump, is a chain equipped with a sufficient number of valves at proper distances, which working on two wheels, passes down through one tube and returns through another.
A low shoe with a thin sole.
Swift. An hydraulic
machine, variously constructed, for raising or transferring fluids,
consisting essentially of a moving piece or piston working in a hollow
cylinder or other cavity, with valves properly placed for admitting or
retaining the fluid as it is drawn or driven through them by the
action of the piston.
* for various kinds of pumps, see Air pump, Chain pump, and Force pump; also, under Lifting, Plunger, Rotary, etc. Circulating pump (Steam Engine), a pump for driving the condensing water through the casing, or tubes, of a surface condenser. -- Pump brake. See Pump handle, below. -- Pump dale. See Dale. -- Pump gear, the apparatus belonging to a pump. Totten. -- Pump handle, the lever, worked by hand, by which motion is given to the bucket of a pump. -- Pump hood, a semicylindrical appendage covering the upper wheel of a chain pump. -- Pump rod, the rod to which the bucket of a pump is fastened, and which is attached to the brake or handle; the piston rod. -- Pump room, a place or room at a mineral spring where the waters are drawn and drunk. [Eng.] -- Pump spear. Same as Pump rod, above. -- Pump stock, the stationary part, body, or barrel of a pump. -- Pump well. (Naut.) See Well. To raise with a
pump, as water or other liquid.
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.
Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as
secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying; to question or
ply persistently in order to elicit something, as information, money,
etc.
But pump not me for politics. Otway. To work, or raise
water, a pump.
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