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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'

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"Spout" Quotes from Famous Books

... unwise moment we begged the draper's wife to honour us with a visit and explain the obliquities of the kitchen range and the tortuosities of the sink-spout to Miss Grieve. While our landlady was on the premises, I took occasion to invite her up to my own room, with a view of seeing whether my mattress of pebbles and iron-filings could be supplemented ...

— Penelope's Experiences in Scotland • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... fire: once alight, these exposed little wooden houses blazed up like heaps of shavings. The clock-hands pointed to one before the storm showed signs of abating. Now, the rain was pouring down, making an ear-splitting din on the iron roof and leaping from every gutter and spout. It had turned very cold. Mahony shivered as he got ...

— Australia Felix • Henry Handel Richardson

... work, two stools with a crock on the top. Then going to the corner where he had laid them, he pulled out his cloak and hat, which as it happened were in a very fair state of freshness, and put them on the lay figure he had improvised; next, he stuck a brush in the spout of the crock, which was turned towards the wall. This done, after assuring himself the thing had quite the look of a man busy painting, he decamped with all speed, determined to keep away till he had ...

— The Well of Saint Clare • Anatole France

... at the confluence of the Blue and White Niles, is the point on which the trade of the south must inevitably converge. It is the great spout through which the merchandise collected from a wide area streams northwards to the Mediterranean shore. It marks the extreme northern limit of the fertile Soudan. Between Khartoum and Assuan the river flows for twelve hundred miles through deserts of ...

— The River War • Winston S. Churchill

... hot springs, and the garments were spread out over the bushes and trees to dry. At one little geyser, bubbling up in the very middle of the road, as we passed we saw a boy pelting the water with stones and mud in order to make it mad and see it spout. The plain was sprinkled here and there with thickets of acacia and mesquite. In the early evening the breeze came loaded with the fragrance of the golden balls of the acacia. There was bright moonlight, and we could see the country, even after sunset. The latter portion ...

— In Indian Mexico (1908) • Frederick Starr

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