Spout

[spaʊt]

Definition

(noun.) an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain.

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Definition

(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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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. [1]. Ajutage, pipe.[2]. Nozzle, nose.

v. a. [1]. Spirt, pour out (through a narrow orifice).[2]. Utter (pompously), mouth, declaim, speak.

v. n. [1]. Gush, issue.[2]. [Colloquial.] Declaim, rant, make a speech, hold forth.

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Definition

v.t. to throw out as from a pipe: to utter volubly: to pawn pledge.—v.i. to issue with violence as from a pipe: to speak volubly to speechify.—n. the projecting mouth of a vessel from which a stream issues: a pipe for conducting a liquid: a term applied to the blowing or breathing of whales and other cetaceans.—ns. Spout′er one who or that which spouts: a speechifier: a South Sea whale a skilful whaler; Spout′-hole an orifice for discharging a liquid a whale's spiracle.—adj. Spout′less wanting a spout.

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