Definition of sump

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Sump (n.) A round pit of stone, lined with clay, for receiving the metal on its first fusion..

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Antecedent :: Antecedent (a.) Presumptive; as, an antecedent improbability..
Sumption :: Sumption (n.) A taking.
Duty :: Duty (n.) Tax, toll, impost, or customs; excise; any sum of money required by government to be paid on the importation, exportation, or consumption of goods..
Assumption :: Assumption (n.) The taking of a person up into heaven.
Transumption :: Transumption (n.) Act of taking from one place to another.
Presumptively :: Presumptively (adv.) By presumption, or supposition grounded or probability; presumably..
Presumption :: Presumption (n.) Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place..
Maximum :: Maximum (a.) Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat..
Larva :: Larva (n.) The early, immature form of any animal when more or less of a metamorphosis takes place, before the assumption of the mature shape..
Phthisis :: Phthisis (n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption..
Dapatical :: Dapatical (a.) Sumptuous in cheer.
Feed :: Feed (v. t.) To give for food, especially to animals; to furnish for consumption; as, to feed out turnips to the cows; to feed water to a steam boiler..
Consumptiveness :: Consumptiveness (n.) A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption..
Sumpter :: Sumpitan (n.) A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands..
Modesty :: Modesty (n.) The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit..
Tisic :: Tisic (n.) Consumption; phthisis. See Phthisis.
Marasmus :: Marasmus (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Subsumption :: Subsumption (n.) The act of subsuming, or of including under another..
Usurpation :: Usurpation (n.) The act of usurping, or of seizing and enjoying; an authorized, arbitrary assumption and exercise of power, especially an infringing on the rights of others; specifically, the illegal seizure of sovereign power; -- commonly used with of, also used with on or upon; as, the usurpation of a throne; the usurpation of the supreme power..
Sumpter :: Sumpter (n.) The driver of a pack horse.
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