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SPOUT, n. [G., to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. See Bud and Pout.]

1. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, useful in directing the stream of a liquid poured out; as the spout of a pitcher, of a tea pot or water pot.

2. A pipe conducting water from another pipe, or from a trough on a house.

3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind. [See Water-spout.]

SPOUT, v.t.

1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale--He spouts the tide.

2. To throw out words with affected gravity; to mouth.

SPOUT, v.i. To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein.

All the glittering hill is bright with spouting rills.


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SPOUT, n. [G., to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. See Bud and Pout.]

1. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, useful in directing the stream of a liquid poured out; as the spout of a pitcher, of a tea pot or water pot.

2. A pipe conducting water from another pipe, or from a trough on a house.

3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind. [See Water-spout.]

SPOUT, v.t.

1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale--He spouts the tide.

2. To throw out words with affected gravity; to mouth.

SPOUT, v.i. To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein.

All the glittering hill is bright with spouting rills.

SPOUT, n. [D. spuit, a spout, spuiten, to spout. In G. spützen is to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. Class Bd. See Bud and Pout.]

  1. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, useful in directing the stream of a liquid poured out; as, the spout of a pitcher, of a tea pot or water pot.
  2. A pipe conducting water from another pipe, or from a trough on a house.
  3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind. [See Water-spout.]

SPOUT, v.i.

To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein. All the glittering hill / Is bright with spouting rills. – Thomson.


SPOUT, v.t.

  1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale … / He spouts the tide. – Creech.
  2. To throw out words with affected gravity; to mouth. – Beaum.

Spout
  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 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.

  3. 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.

  4. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

    Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. *** Fl.

  5. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
  6. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
  7. To pawn] to pledge; as, spout a watch.

    [Cant]
  8. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
  9. 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]

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Spout

SPOUT, noun [G., to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. See Bud and Pout.]

1. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, useful in directing the stream of a liquid poured out; as the spout of a pitcher, of a tea pot or water pot.

2. A pipe conducting water from another pipe, or from a trough on a house.

3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind. [See Water-spout.]

SPOUT, verb transitive

1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale--He spouts the tide.

2. To throw out words with affected gravity; to mouth.

SPOUT, verb intransitive To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein.

All the glittering hill is bright with spouting rills.

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