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spouting |
2 definitions found 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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