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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 645 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PUMP ,1 a See also:

machine which drives a liquid from one point to another, generally at different levels, the latter being usually the higher; an See also:

air-pump is an appliance for exhausting or 1 The word appears apparently first in See also:

ENGLISH

English in the Promotorium Parvulorum,. c. 1440, of a See also:

SHIP

ship's pump (hauritorium), in Dutch (pompe), a little later, dialectically, of a conduit See also:

PIPE

pipe for See also:

WATER

water, but in the sense of a means of raising water it does not occur in Dutch or Ger. before the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The Fr. pompe is derived from Teat. The Ger. variant of Pumpe is Plumpe, which is generally taken as being an echoic word, imitating the See also:

sound of the plunger, but the See also:

PRIMARY

primary notion seems to be that of a pipe or See also:

TUBE (Lat. tuba)

tube. Cf. Ital. See also:

TERM

term, tromba, i.e. See also:

trumpet, pipe (see the See also:

note on the word in the New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary). The See also:

PUMA

Puma (Felis concolor). Central See also:

AMERICA

America it is still See also:

COMMON

common in the dense forests which clothe the See also:

mountain ranges as high as 8000 or 9000 ft. above the See also:

sea level. Though an See also:

EXPERT (Lat. expertus, from experiri, to try)

expert climber, it is by no means confined to wooded districts, being frequently found in scrub and reeds along the See also:

banks of See also:

rivers, and even in the open See also:

PAMPAS (Span. La Pampa, from a Quichua word signifying a level open space or terrace)

pampas and prairies. Its habits much resemble those of the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of the See also:

GROUP

group to which it belongs; and, like the See also:

LEOPARD

leopard, when it happens to come within reach of an abundant and easy See also:

PREY (0. Fr. preie, mod. proie, Lat. praeda, booty, from prae and the root hed—seen in prehendere, prendere, to grasp)

prey, as the See also:

sheep or calves of an outlying farming station, it kills far more than it can eat, either for the See also:

SAKE

sake of the See also:

BLOOD

blood only or to gratify its propensity for destruction. It rarely attacks See also:

man, and when pursued escapes if possible by ascending trees. Several instances have occurred of pumas becoming tame in captivity.

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