Pul*vin"ic (?), a. [From Vulpinic, by transposition of the letters.]
(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by the
decomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.
||Pul*vin"u*lus (?), n.; pl. Pulvinuli (#). [L., a little mound.]
||(Zoˆl.) Same as Pulvillus.
Pu"ma (p"m), n. [Peruv. puma.] (Zoˆl.) A large American carnivore
(Felis concolor), found from Canada to Patagonia, especially among the
mountains. Its color is tawny, or brownish yellow, without spots or
stripes. Called also catamount, cougar, American lion, mountain lion,
and panther or painter.
Pume (?), n. (Zoˆl.) A stint.
Pu"mi*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Pumicating.] [L. pumicatus, p. p. of pumicare to pumicate, fr. pumex.
See Pumice.] To make smooth with pumice. [R.]
Pum"ice (?), n. [L. pumex, pumicis, prob. akin to spuma foam: cf. AS.
pumic- stn. Cf. Pounce a powder, Spume.] (Min.) 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.
Pum"iced (?), a. (Far.) 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.
Pu*mi`ceous (?), a. [L. pumiceus.] Of or pertaining to pumice;
resembling pumice.
Pum"ice stone` (?). Same as Pumice.
Pu*mic"i*form (?), a. [Pumice + -form.] Resembling, or having the
structure of, pumice.
Pum"mace (?), n. Same as Pomace.
Pum"mel (?), n. & v. t. Same as Pommel.
Pump (pmp), n. [Probably so called as being worn for pomp or ornament.
See Pomp.] A low shoe with a thin sole. Swift.
Pump, n. [Akin to D. pomp, G. pumpe, F. pompe; of unknown origin.] 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.
Pump, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pumped (pmt; 215); p. pr. & vb. n. pumping.]
1. To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid.
2. 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.
3. 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.
Pump, v. i. To work, or raise water, a pump.
Pump"age (?), n. That which is raised by pumps, or the work done by
pumps.
The pumpage last year amounted to . . . gallons.
Sci. Amer.
Pump"er (?), n. One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in
pumping. Boyle.
Pump"er*nick`el (?), n. [G.] A sort of bread, made of unbolted rye,
which forms the chief food of the Westphalian peasants. It is acid but
nourishing.
Pum"pet (?), n. A pompet.
Pumpet ball (Print.), a ball for inking types; a pompet.
Pump"ing, a. & n. from pump.
Pumping engine, a steam engine and pump combined for raising water. See
Steam engine.
Pump"ion (?), n. (Bot.) See Pumpkin.
Pump"kin (?), n. [For older pompion, pompon, OF. pompon, L. pepo,
peponis, Gr. &?;, properly, cooked by the sun, ripe, mellow; -- so
called because not eaten till ripe. Cf. Cook, n.] (Bot.) A well-known
trailing plant (Cucurbita pepo) and its fruit, -- used for cooking and
for feeding stock; a pompion.
Pumpkin seed. (a) The flattish oval seed of the pumpkin. (b) (Zoˆl.)
The common pondfish.
Pu"my (?), a. [Cf. Prov. E. pummer big, large, and E. pomey pommel.]
Large and rounded. [Obs.]
A gentle stream, whose murmuring wave did play Amongst the pumy
stones.
Spenser.