Air pump
() A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closed space |
Air pump
() A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air. |
Chain 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. |
Force pump
() A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves |
Force pump
() A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump, or under a considerable pressure |
Hogger-pump
(n.) The for pump in the pit. |
Houses
(pl. ) of House |
House
(n.) A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind |
House
(n.) Household affairs |
House
(n.) Those who dwell in the same house |
House
(n.) A family of ancestors, descendants, and kindred |
House
(n.) One of the estates of a kingdom or other government assembled in parliament or legislature |
House
(n.) A firm, or commercial establishment. |
House
(n.) A public house |
House
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in the reverse order every twenty-four hours. |
House
(n.) A square on a chessboard, regarded as the proper place of a piece. |
House
(n.) An audience |
House
(n.) The body, as the habitation of the soul. |
House
(n.) The grave. |
House
(v. t.) To take or put into a house |
House
(v. t.) To drive to a shelter. |
House
(v. t.) To admit to residence |
House
(v. t.) To deposit and cover, as in the grave. |
House
(v. t.) To stow in a safe place |
House
(v. i.) To take shelter or lodging |
House
(v. i.) To have a position in one of the houses. See House, n., 8. |
Lombard-house
(n.) Alt. of Lombar-house |
Lombar-house
(n.) A bank or a pawnbroker's shop. |
Lombar-house
(n.) A public institution for lending money to the poor at a moderate interest, upon articles deposited and pledged |
Moot-house
(n.) A hall for public meetings |
Pump
(n.) A low shoe with a thin sole. |
Pump
(n.) 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. |
Pump
(v. t.) To raise with a pump, as water or other liquid. |
Pump
(v. t.) To draw water, or the like, from |
Pump
(v. t.) Figuratively, to draw out or obtain, as secrets or money, by persistent questioning or plying |
Pump
(v. i.) To work, or raise water, a pump. |
Sprengel pump
() 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 |
Sugar-house
(n.) A building in which sugar is made or refined |
Tippling-house
(n.) A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises. |
Tiring-house
(n.) A tiring-room. |
Treasure-house
(n.) A house or building where treasures and stores are kept. |
Trugging-house
(n.) A brothel. |
Weigh-houses
(pl. ) of Weigh-house |
Weigh-house
(n.) A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. |