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A puddle or dirty pool. [Prov. Eng.] Sump fuse, a fuse used in blasting under water. -- Sump men (Mining), the men who sink the sump in a mine.

A dunce; a blockhead. [Scot.]

A kind of blowgun for discharging arrows, -- used by the savages of Borneo and adjacent islands.

Carrying pack or burdens on the back; as, a sumpter horse; a sumpter mule. Bacon.

A taking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Relating to expense; regulating expense or expenditure. Bacon. Sumptuary laws or regulations, laws intended to restrain or limit the expenditure of citizens in apparel, food, furniture, etc.; laws which regulate the prices of commodities and the wages of labor; laws which forbid or restrict the use of certain articles,…

Expensiveness; costliness; sumptuousness. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

rge outlay or expense; costly; expensive; hence, luxurious; splendid; magnificient; as, a sumptuous house or table; sumptuous apparel. We are too magnificient and sumptuous in our tables and attendance. Atterbury. She spoke, and turned her sumptuous head, with eyes Of shining expectation fixed on mine. Tennyson. -- Sum…

Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

r promise, express or implied, oral or in writing not under seal. Common or indebitatus assumpsit is brought for the most part on an implied promise. Special assumpsit is founded on an express promise or undertaking. Wharton.

That which is assumed; an assumption. [Obs.] The sun of all your assumpts is this. Chillingworth.

act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. The assumption of authority. Whewell.

Assumed, or capable of being assumed; characterized by assumption; making unwarranted claims. -- As*sump"tive*ly, adv. 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.…

of the price to the consumer is a new incentive to him to retrench the quality of his consumption. Burke.

Of or pertaining to consumption; having the quality of consuming, or dissipating; destructive; wasting. It [prayer] is not consumptive or our time. Sharp. A long consumptive war. Addison.

In a way tending to or indication consumption. Beddoes.

A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption.

Inconsumable. [Obs.] Sir K. Digby.

The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.

ence probable, but not conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the presumption is that an event has taken place.