2. (Steam Engines) A pump used to exhaust from a condenser the condensed steam, the water used for condensing, and any commingled air. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The assumption of authority. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim. [ 1913 Webster ]

This gives no sanction to the unwarrantable assumption that the soul sleeps from the period of death to the resurrection of the body. Thodey. [ 1913 Webster ]

That calm assumption of the virtues. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hold! says the Stoic; your assumption's wrong. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The taking of a person up into heaven. Hence: (Rom. Cath. & Greek Churches) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven. [ 1913 Webster ]

Assumptive arms (Her.), originally, arms which a person had a right to assume, in consequence of an exploit; now, those assumed without sanction of the Heralds' College. Percy Smith. [1913 Webster]

2. A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance. [ 1913 Webster ]

It had upon its brow
A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Phren.) One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of “veneration;” the bump of “acquisitiveness.” [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

As a bittern bumps within a reed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock, such as a metal or rubber rim extending from an object; a buffer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Specifically: (Motor vehicles) A protective guard device, usually of metal or rubber, attached horizontally to the front or rear of the frame of a vehicle, designed to resist or deaden a bump or shock, and to prevent damage to the main frame of the vehicle in low-velocity collisions. [ PJC ]

2. a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple.
Syn. -- shivaree, chivaree, charivari, callithump. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a stupid person; a fool; a dolt; also, a dupe. [ PJC ]

Chump end, the thick end; as, the chump end of a joint of meat. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A cluster; a group; a thicket. [ 1913 Webster ]

A clump of shrubby trees. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The compressed clay of coal strata. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

Vapors . . . clumpered in balls of clouds. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every new advance of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state or process of being consumed, wasted, or diminished; waste; diminution; loss; decay. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Med.) A progressive wasting away of the body; esp., that form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Syn. -- Decline; waste; decay. See Decline. [ 1913 Webster ]

It [ prayer ] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp. [ 1913 Webster ]

A long consumptive war. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Affected with, or inclined to, consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]

The lean, consumptive wench, with coughs decayed. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: A full account of a person's knowledge on some specific topic, usually produced in response to a question of some kind. It is a mildly deprecatory term, suggesting that the person producing the account was unable to prepare a more concise and understandable summary of the information; as, I just need the essentials, not a core dump. [ PJC ]

Crooked backs and crump shoulders. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hard or crusty; dry baked; as, a crump loaf. [ Prov. Eng. & Scot. ] Hallivell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. a sexually attractive woman. [ British slang ] RHUD [ PJC ]