Crossword clues for spouting
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.]
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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?
--Chaucer.Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . He spouts the tide.
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To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Pray, spout some French, son.
--Beau. & Fl. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [Cant]
Wiktionary
a. (context of a liquid English) That is propelled in a narrow stream or jet. n. 1 The process or result of something being spouted; that which is spouted. 2 (context Australia New Zealand English) A gutter under the eaves of a building; guttering.
WordNet
Usage examples of "spouting".
But lazily undulating in the trough of the sea, and ever and anon tranquilly spouting his vapory jet, the whale looked like a portly burgher smoking his pipe of a warm afternoon.
Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
Hence, all the smaller, spouting and horizontal tailed fish must be included in this ground-plan of Cetology.
And he ended up in an asylum, spouting techno-babble and speaking in foot-long words.
Hellcats got their stubby noses on target, and as the six guns clattered heavily and the smoke poured back over wings and canopies, the noses would come up and the bullets walk a row of planes, knocking pieces of aluminum into the air and spouting flame and black smoke from enemy gas tanks.
On the evening of the fourteenth, with flight operations over for the day, hundreds of men came up on deck to watch the fires and the spouting explosions still going on ashore.
The SB2Cs hurtled almost straight down from 15,000 feet, the pilots leaning forward, concentrating on the growing targets, wishing there were 1,000-pounders in their bomb bays instead of the two 500s, ignoring the flashing, streaking, smoking flak, around the edges of their vision seeing the altimeters unwind and the square-winged fighters sweep across their targets, the rocket hits sparkle and smoke against the steel, the bombs of planes ahead spouting close aboard or flashing beautifully on decks and turrets.
They plastered the walls of the cities and towns with a million screeching colored posters, distributed eight million pamphlets and twelve million extra copies of their party newspapers, staged three thousand meetings a day and, for the first time in a German election, made good use of films and gramophone records, the latter spouting forth from loudspeakers on trucks.
Avelyn was in the tavern, as usual, standing atop a table, spouting warnings and curses.
Avelyn went down into the common room of the inn they had chosen, spouting his diatribes.
Dek moved to follow, but stopped, again lifting his hand, and then, when he discerned that the blood was verily spouting from his neck, he grabbed at the wound tightly, trying to stem the flow, then ran off for Caer Tinella.
And Conway, equally youngish but not young either, much more an impassioned, straight-faced square, spouting his truths, somewhat pedantically.
Ironmine only once a decade at most, come from the Big City on one of the river boats that ranged the watery dark like luxurious comets, spouting long thick tails of sparks from their sequoia-tall stacks with top foliage of curvy-snipped sheet iron.
I consider the otherwise inexplicable obstinacy of that leviathan in having his spoutings out, as the fishermen phrase it.
Now, why should the whale thus insist upon having his spoutings out, unless it be to replenish his reservoir of air, ere descending for good?