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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Spout

Spout, n.

noun

n. [D. spuit, a spout, spuiten, to spout, allied to spit, q. v. Cf. also Sw. sputa, spruta, to spout, and Eng. spurt]

  1. A pipe or tube for conducting a fluid; a pipe through which any thing runs, as water from a roof.
  2. A pipe, or a projecting mouth of a vessel, used in directing a stream of a liquid poured out; as, the spout of a pitcher, of a tea-pot or water-pot. “A conduit with three issuing spouts.” Shak.
  3. A violent discharge of water raised in a column at sea, like a whirlwind, or by a whirlwind; a waterspout. See WATERSPOUT.

To put, or shove, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker’s. [Cant.]

Spout, v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. SPOUTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SPOUTING.] 1. To throw out, as liquids through a narrow orifice or pipe; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. Creech.

  1. To throw out, as words, with affected gravity; to mouth. Beau. & Fl.
  2. To pawn; to pledge. [Cant.]

Spout, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. 1. To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; to send forth a stream; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein. All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson. 2. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.