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Webster 1913 Edition
Spout
Spout
(spout)
, Verb.
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 abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet;
as, an elephant
. spouts
water from his trunkWho kept Jonas in the fish’s maw
Till he was
Till he was
spouted
up at Ninivee? Chaucer.
Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . .
He
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, to
. spout
a watch[Cant]
Spout
,Verb.
I.
1.
To issue 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 arteryAll the glittering hill
Is bright with
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.
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 up the spout
, To shove up the spout
, or To 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]
Webster 1828 Edition
Spout
SPOUT
,Noun.
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.
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
,Verb.
I.
All the glittering hill is bright with spouting rills.
Definition 2024
spout
spout
English
Noun
spout (plural spouts)
- a tube or lip through which liquid is poured or discharged
- I dropped my china teapot, and its spout has broken.
- a stream of liquid
- the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
Coordinate terms
- (tube through which liquid is discharged): nozzle
Translations
a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged
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a stream of liquid
the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale
Verb
spout (third-person singular simple present spouts, present participle spouting, simple past and past participle spouted)
- (intransitive) To gush forth in a jet or stream
- Water spouts from a hole.
- (transitive, intransitive) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
- The whale spouted.
- Creech
- The mighty whale […] spouts the tide.
- To speak tediously or pompously.
- To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- Pray, spout some French, son.
- Beaumont and Fletcher
- (slang, dated) To pawn; to pledge.
- to spout a watch
Translations
to gush forth in a stream
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to speak tediously and at length
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