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spout

 

  4  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spout  \Spout\,  v.  i. 
  1.  To  issue  with  with  violence,  or  in  a  jet,  as  a  liquid 
  through  a  narrow  orifice,  or  from  a  spout;  as  water 
  spouts  from  a  hole;  blood  spouts  from  an  artery. 
 
  All  the  glittering  hill  Is  bright  with  spouting 
  rills.  --Thomson. 
 
  2.  To  eject  water  or  liquid  in  a  jet. 
 
  3.  To  utter  a  speech,  especially  in  a  pompous  manner. 
 
  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Spout  \Spout\,  n.  [Cf.  Sw  spruta  a  squirt,  a  syringe.  See 
  {Spout},  v.  t.] 
  1.  That  through  which  anything  spouts;  a  discharging  lip, 
  pipe,  or  orifice;  a  tube,  pipe,  or  conductor  of  any  kind 
  through  which  a  liquid  is  poured,  or  by  which  it  is 
  conveyed  in  a  stream  from  one  place  to  another;  as  the 
  spout  of  a  teapot;  a  spout  for  conducting  water  from  the 
  roof  of  a  building.  --Addison.  ``A  conduit  with  three 
  issuing  spouts.''  --Shak. 
 
  In  whales  .  .  .  an  ejection  thereof  [water]  is 
  contrived  by  a  fistula,  or  spout,  at  the  head.  --Sir 
  T.  Browne. 
 
  From  silver  spouts  the  grateful  liquors  glide. 
  --Pope. 
 
  2.  A  trough  for  conducting  grain,  flour,  etc.,  into  a 
  receptacle. 
 
  3.  A  discharge  or  jet  of  water  or  other  liquid,  esp.  when 
  rising  in  a  column;  also  a  waterspout. 
 
  {To  put},  {shove},  or  {pop},  {up  the  spout},  to  pawn  or 
  pledge  at  a  pawnbroker's;  --  in  allusion  to  the  spout  up 
  which  the  pawnbroker  sent  the  ticketed  articles.  [Cant] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  spout 
  n  :  an  opening  that  allows  the  passage  of  liquids  or  grain 
  v  1:  gush  forth  in  a  sudden  stream  or  jet  of  liquids  [syn:  {spurt}, 
  {spirt},  {gush}] 
  2:  talk  in  a  noisy,  excited,  or  declamatory  manner  [syn:  {rant}, 
  {mouth  off},  {jabber},  {rabbit  on},  {rave}]




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