SPOUT
\spˈa͡ʊt], \spˈaʊt], \s_p_ˈaʊ_t]\
Definitions of SPOUT
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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gush forth in a sudden stream or jet of liquids
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talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner
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an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain
By Princeton University
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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.
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To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
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To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
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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.
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To eject water or liquid in a jet.
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To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
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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.
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A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
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A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
By Oddity Software
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The projecting mouth of a vessel; a pipe or tube for carrying off a liquid in a stream or jet.
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To throw out forcibly and in large amount in a jet or stream, as from a pipe; colloquially, to utter pompously; as, to spout poetry.
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To come forth with violence in a jet or stream, as from a pipe; to recite anything in a pompous manner.
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Spouter.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To throw out, as from a pipe.
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The projecting mouth of a vessel from which a stream issues: a pipe for conducting a liquid.
By Daniel Lyons
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Projecting mouth of a vessel; pipe for discharging.
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To discharge forcibly, as a liquid.
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To issue with force.
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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n. [Dutch] A pipe or tube for conducting a fluid ;-a projecting mouth of a vessel used in directing a stream of a liquid poured out ;-a violent discharge of aqueous matter from a cloud ; a water-spout;-also, a heavy fall, as of rain;- the shoot in a pawnbroker's shop; hence, to put up the spout, to pawn;-to be up the spout, to be in difficulties; to be compelled to pawn.
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