Noun
an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain

Verb
talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner

Verb
gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth"

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v. t.
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.

v. t.
To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

v. t.
To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.

v. i.
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.

v. i.
To eject water or liquid in a jet.

v. i.
To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

v. t.
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.

v. t.
A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.

v. t.
A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

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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 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?

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.

2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

Pray, spout some French, son.

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.

2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. 3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

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.

In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head.

From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.

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, ∨ 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]

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.

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.

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.