Spout /(spout)/

Spout

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Spouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Spouting

  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.
    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.
    — Creech.
  2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
    Pray, spout some French, son.
  3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [Cant]

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.
    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

n.
  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.
    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.

Phrases & Compounds

To put up the spout
to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles.