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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Spout \Spout\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Spouted}; p. pr & vb n.
{Spouting}.] [Cf. Sw sputa, spruta, to spout, D. spuit a
spout, spuiten to spout, and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout,
sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit to eject from the mouth.]
1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an
office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as an elephant
spouts water from his trunk.
Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted
up at Ninivee? --Chaucer.
Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He
spouts the tide. --Creech.
2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or
pompous manner.
Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl
3. To pawn; to pledge; as spout a watch. [Cant]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
spouting
adj : propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: {jetting},
{spurting}, {squirting}]
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