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from The Century Dictionary.

  • See mercury air-pump, under mercury.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Physics) 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; -- named from the inventor.

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