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noun

Spout n.

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. "A conduit with three issuing spouts." "In whales... an ejection thereof (water) is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head." "From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide."

A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

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)

verb

Spout v. t. (past & past part. spouted; pres. part. spouting)

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 trunk. "Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee?" "Next on his belly floats the mighty whale... He spouts the tide."

To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. "Pray, spout some French, son."

To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. (Cant)

Spout v. i.

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 artery. "All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills."

To eject water or liquid in a jet.

To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

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Etymology of 'Spout'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Spout" Quotes from Famous Books

... Down the spout a torrent gushed, to be pent up in an old, dark tub, and made the slave of the washerwoman. Would it not have been better for thee, O water, to have fallen in the beautiful forest? to lie in the bosom of the lily, or ...

— Canadian Wild Flowers • Helen M. Johnson

... were always raised against the sanguinary practice; and scarce a duel occurred within a reasonable distance unattended by his reverence, in the capacity, as he said, of 'an unauthorised, but airnest, though, he feared, unavailing peacemaker.' There he used to spout little maxims of reconciliation, and Christian brotherhood and forbearance; exhorting to forget and forgive; wringing his hands at each successive discharge; and it must be said, too, in fairness, playing the ...

— The House by the Church-Yard • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... have that bucket to play with. He knew that he could have heaps of fun rolling it about on the ground. And he was just going to knock it off the hook that held it when he noticed that a small spout had been driven into the tree just above the bucket. And as Cuffy stood there on his hind legs, reaching up as high as he could, he saw a tiny drop fall from the spout and go splash! into the bucket. Then, as he watched, another drop fell; ...

— The Tale of Cuffy Bear • Arthur Scott Bailey

... up to take the seat. As he was seating himself, Tom took off the cover, so that he was plunged into the half-liquid ice; but Mr Winterbottom was too drunk to perceive it. He continued to rant and to rave, and protest and vow, and even spout for some time, when suddenly the quantity of caloric extracted ...

— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat

... duck. It was a very good duck; as indeed it should have been, for it was fattened on Egyptian corn, hung the exact number of days, and cooked by Charley. It had a little spout of celery down which I could pour the abundant juice from its inside; and it was flanked right and left respectively by a piece of lemon liberally sprinkled with red pepper and sundry crisp slabs of fried hominy. Every ...

— The Killer • Stewart Edward White

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