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spout
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Word definitions for spout in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.] To throw ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from spout (v.). Cognate with Middle Dutch spoit , North Frisian spütj . It was the slang term for the lift in a pawnbroker's shop, the device which took up articles for storage, hence figurative phrase up the spout "lost, hopeless, gone beyond ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an opening that allows the passage of liquids or grain v. gush forth in a sudden stream or jet; "water gushed forth" [syn: spurt , spirt , gush ] talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner [syn: rant , mouth off , jabber , rabbit on , rave ]
Usage examples of spout.
Zorzi began to make the spout, for it was a large ampulla that he was fashioning.
He went on to make the handle of the ampulla, an easy matter compared with making the spout.
Then he made a tall drinking glass such as he had never made before, and then, in contrast, a tiny ampulla, so small that he could almost hide it in his hand, with its spout, yet decorated with all the perfection of a larger piece.
For some little time the whole building was a blinding crimson mass, the towers continued to spout thick columns of rockets aloft, and overhead the sky was radiant with arrowy bolts which clove their way to the zenith, paused, curved gracefully downward, then burst into brilliant fountain-sprays of richly colored sparks.
Crystal shivers poured down from the chandelier, the mantelpiece mirror was cracked into stars, plaster dust flew, spent cartridges bounced over the floor, window-panes shattered, benzene spouted from the bullet-pierced primus.
I thought Ula was crazy, spouting off a bunch of blarney, but everything she said was true.
French Marcy, or me reputation as a bloodhound goes up the bleeding spout.
Each muzzle flares a nova of constant spray, but I do not spout hot gushers of blood, because the coppers are firing over my head at the second wing of the Chinese killers, which lessens the impacts vibrating through this cement monticle and rattling my bones.
Martel knows the collapsed one could not have been a good newsie, not after spouting such garbage.
Ruiz had been, and the man who had succeeded Mackie at the Sagan dome, a young former resident named Kerry, did nothing but spout officialese and academic doubletalk.
Oriental straits of that name, whose spout was oft seen from the palmy beach of Ombay?
It is believed that the spout of the oil-can must have passed under the zygoma to the base of the skull, perforating the great wing of the spheroid bone and penetrating the centrum ovale, injuring the anterior fibers of the motor tract in the internal capsule near the genu.
He took Prew by the sleeve of his gook shirt and spouted out a stream of French that rose and fell and ran together like distant small arms fire.
Both guns were spouting fire, and he could see Raiss was on his feet, shooting back.
But the left gun kept spouting fire, and Raiss sagged across the table, spilling the soup.