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verb

Pour v. t. (past & past part. poured; pres. part. pouring)

To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. "I... have poured out my soul before the Lord." "Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee." "London doth pour out her citizens!" "Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?"

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. "Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?"

Pour v. i. To pore. (Obs.)

Pour v. i. To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater. "In the rude throng pour on with furious pace."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pouring" Quotes from Famous Books

... way diminished. Her bow-wave, owing to the gradually increasing draught, was greater, but less sharp than before. In a few minutes the water would be pouring over ...

— The Submarine Hunters - A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War • Percy F. Westerman

... her supper on the lighted table by the kitchen window and was pouring out her cup of tea, when a boy rapped at the door. "Here's a paper and a letter, Miss Wentworth," he said. "It's the second this week, and they think over to the store that that Berwick widower must be settin' up ...

— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin

... of Lake Flevo, south of Stavoren and Enkhuisen, so that our passage then would have been made on land. But in 1282 came a great tempest which drove the German ocean over the north-west shores of Holland, insulating Texel and pouring over the low land between Holland and Friesland. The scheme now in contemplation to drain the Zuyder Zee proposes a dam from Enkhuisen to Piaam, thus reclaiming some 1,350,000 acres for meadow land. Since what man has done ...

— A Wanderer in Holland • E. V. Lucas

... first side, then, or that towards the Sea, has Aquarius, as the house of Saturn, represented as a seated figure beautifully draped, pouring a stream of water out of an amphora over the leaves of the capital. ...

— Stones of Venice [introductions] • John Ruskin

... that had their wits about them and could work need not die for the sake of one bad year. Moreover, after nine weeks, there came a regular blessing of rain, rain all one day and night, and sixteen hours of it pouring as hard as it could. If it had come but two weeks back, Isak would have said, "It's too late now!" As it was, he said to Inger, "You see, that'll save ...

— Growth of the Soil • Knut Hamsun

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