Category:Spout

Spout, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting.] Etym: [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]

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.

Spout Spout, n. Etym: [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]