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:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-aʊt|-aʊt

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a tube through which liquid is poured or discharged
a stream of liquid
the mixture of air and water thrown up from the blowhole of a whale

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw
Till he was spouted up at Ninivee? --Chaucer.
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Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . .
He spouts the tide. --Creech.
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2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or
pompous manner.
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Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl.
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3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [Cant]
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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All the glittering hill
Is bright with spouting rills. --Thomson.
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2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
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3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
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In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is
contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir
T. Browne.
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From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
--Pope.
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2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
receptacle.
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3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
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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]
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WordNet spout
n : an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
v 1: gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth"
[syn: spurt, spirt, gush]
2: talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant,
mouth off, jabber, rabbit on, rave]

Moby Dictionary
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

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