'Spout' definitions:
Definition of 'spout'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Spout'
From: GCIDE
- Spout \Spout\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir T. Browne. [1913 Webster]
- From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. [1913 Webster]
- 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] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spout'
From: GCIDE
- Spout \Spout\ (spout), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting.] [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 abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. [1913 Webster]
- Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw Till he was spouted up at Ninivee? --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide. --Creech. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. [1913 Webster]
- Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [Cant] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Spout'
From: GCIDE
- Spout \Spout\, v. i.
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting rills. --Thomson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'spout'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- anabasis,
- ascension,
- ascent,
- avenue,
- babble,
- beak,
- belch,
- blab,
- blabber,
- blather,
- blether,
- blow open,
- blow out,
- blowhole,
- blowout,
- bond,
- bottomry,
- brash,
- break out,
- burst forth,
- burst of rain,
- burst out,
- carry on,
- cascade,
- cast forth,
- cataract,
- channel,
- chat,
- chatter,
- chute,
- clack,
- clamber,
- clatter,
- climb,
- climbing,
- cloudburst,
- conduit,
- debate,
- debouch,
- decant,
- declaim,
- deluge,
- demagogue,
- deposit,
- destroyed,
- dip,
- discharge,
- disembogue,
- disgorge,
- disgorgement,
- dither,
- door,
- downfall,
- downflow,
- downpour,
- downspout,
- drain,
- drain out,
- drencher,
- duct,
- egress,
- ejaculate,
- ejaculation,
- eject,
- elevation,
- elocute,
- emission,
- emit,
- empty,
- emunctory,
- eruct,
- eructation,
- erupt,
- eruption,
- escalade,
- escape,
- estuary,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- expatiate,
- expel,
- expulsion,
- extravasate,
- extravasation,
- falls,
- find vent,
- flood,
- floodgate,
- flow,
- flow out,
- flume,
- flush,
- font,
- force,
- fount,
- fountain,
- gab,
- gabble,
- gargoyle,
- gas,
- geyser,
- gibber,
- gibble-gabble,
- go bail,
- go on,
- gone,
- gossip,
- grimace,
- gush,
- gush out,
- gushing rain,
- gyring up,
- ham,
- ham it up,
- handsel,
- harangue,
- haver,
- heavy rain,
- hock,
- hold forth,
- hurl forth,
- hypothecate,
- impignorate,
- increase,
- jabber,
- jaw,
- jet,
- jump,
- leap,
- levitation,
- loophole,
- lost,
- mortgage,
- mount,
- mounting,
- mouth,
- mug,
- natter,
- opening,
- orate,
- out,
- out-herod Herod,
- outburst,
- outcome,
- outfall,
- outflow,
- outgate,
- outgo,
- outlet,
- outpour,
- overact,
- overdramatize,
- palaver,
- patter,
- pawn,
- perorate,
- plash,
- play,
- pledge,
- pontificate,
- pop,
- pore,
- port,
- post,
- pour,
- pour forth,
- pour out,
- prate,
- prattle,
- put in hock,
- put in pawn,
- put up,
- rabble-rouse,
- rainburst,
- rainspout,
- rainstorm,
- ramble on,
- rant,
- rattle,
- rattle on,
- rave,
- read,
- recite,
- reel off,
- rise,
- rising,
- roar,
- rocketing up,
- rodomontade,
- run on,
- run out,
- rush,
- sally port,
- saltation,
- scud,
- send forth,
- send out,
- shoot,
- shooting up,
- sluice,
- sluice out,
- soaker,
- soaking rain,
- soaring,
- spate,
- speechify,
- spew,
- spew out,
- spiel,
- spiracle,
- spit,
- spout off,
- spout out,
- spouter,
- spray,
- spring,
- spritz,
- spurt,
- spurtle,
- squirt,
- stake,
- stream,
- surge,
- takeoff,
- taking off,
- talk,
- talk away,
- talk nonsense,
- talk on,
- tap,
- throw away,
- throw out,
- tittle-tattle,
- torrent of rain,
- tub-thump,
- twaddle,
- twattle,
- underact,
- up the spout,
- upclimb,
- upcoming,
- updraft,
- upgang,
- upgo,
- upgoing,
- upgrade,
- upgrowth,
- uphill,
- upleap,
- uplift,
- upping,
- uprisal,
- uprise,
- uprising,
- uprush,
- upshoot,
- upslope,
- upsurge,
- upsurgence,
- upsweep,
- upswing,
- vault,
- vent,
- ventage,
- venthole,
- vomit,
- vomit forth,
- vomit out,
- vomitory,
- waffle,
- waterspout,
- way out,
- weir,
- well,
- well out,
- yak,
- yakkety-yak,
- zooming