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]
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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.
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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, ∨ 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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