spout

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

spout, v. t. [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 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.  [1913 Webster]

  "Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw
  Till he was spouted up at Ninivee?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . .
  He spouts the tide."  [1913 Webster]
•  To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.  [1913 Webster]

  "Pray, spout some French, son."  [1913 Webster]
•  To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch.  [1913 Webster]

spout, v. i. 

•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "All the glittering hill
  Is bright with spouting rills."  [1913 Webster]
•  To eject water or liquid in a jet.  [1913 Webster]
•  To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.  [1913 Webster]

spout, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, 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.  [1913 Webster]

  "In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head."  [1913 Webster]

  "From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide."  [1913 Webster]
•  A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.  [1913 Webster]
•  A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.  [1913 Webster]

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]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

spout, n. & v.
--n.
1 a a projecting tube or lip through which a liquid etc. is poured from a teapot, kettle, jug, etc., or issues from a fountain, pump, etc. b a sloping trough down which a thing may be shot into a receptacle. c hist. a lift serving a pawnbroker's storeroom.
2 a jet or column of liquid, grain, etc.
3 (in full spout-hole) a whale's blow-hole.
--v.tr. & intr.
1 discharge or issue forcibly in a jet.
2 utter (verses etc.) or speak in a declamatory manner, speechify.

Idiom

up the spout sl.
1 useless, ruined, hopeless.
2 pawned.
3 pregnant.

Derivative

spouter n. spoutless adj.

Etymology

ME f. MDu. spouten, orig. imit.

THESAURUS

spout

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

ROGET THESAURUS

spout

Speech

VB speak of, say, utter, pronounce, deliver, give utterance to, utter forth, pour forth, breathe, let fall, come out with, rap out, blurt out have on one's lips, have at the end of one's tongue, have at the tip of one's tongue, break silence, open one's lips, open one's mouth, lift one's voice, raise one's voice, give the tongue, wag the tongue, talk, outspeak, put in a word or two, hold forth, make a speech, deliver a speech, speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs, have one's say, say one's say, spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage, expatiate, speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump, soliloquize, tell, speak to, talk together, be eloquent, have a tongue in one's head, have the gift of the gab, pass one's lips, escape one's lips, fall from the lips, fall from the mouth.

The Drama

VB act, play, perform, put on the stage, personate, mimic, enact, play a part, act a part, go through a part, perform a part, rehearse, spout, gag, rant, strut and fret one's hour upon a stage, tread the boards, tread the stage, come out, star it.

Security

VB give security, give bail, give substantial bail, go bail, pawn, impawn, spout, mortgage, hypothecate, impignorate, guarantee, warrant, warrantee, assure, accept, indorse, underwrite, insure, cosign, countersign, sponsor, cosponsor, execute, stamp, sign, seal, let, sett, grant a lease, take a lease, hold a lease, hold in pledge, lend on security.

Egress

N egress, exit, issue, emersion, emergence, outbreak, outburst, eruption, proruption, emanation, egression, evacuation, exudation, transudation, extravasation, perspiration, sweating, leakage, percolation, distillation, oozing, gush, outpour, outpouring, effluence, effusion, effluxion, drain, dribbling, defluxion, drainage, outcome, output, discharge, export, expatriation, emigration, remigration, debouch, debouche, emunctory, exodus, emigrant, outlet, vent, spout, tap, sluice, floodgate, pore, vomitory, outgate, sally port, way out, mouth, door, path, conduit, airpipe, effused, outgoing.

VB emerge, emanate, issue, egress, go out of, come out of, move out of, pass out of, pour out of, flow out of, pass out of, evacuate, exude, transude, leak, run through, out through, percolate, transcolate, egurgitate, strain, distill, perspire, sweat, drain, ooze, filter, filtrate, dribble, gush, spout, flow out, well, well out, pour, trickle, effuse, extravasate, disembogue, discharge itself, debouch, come forth, break forth, burst out, burst through, find vent, escape.

River

N river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along, river, running water, jet, spirt, spurt, squirt, spout, spray, splash, rush, gush, jet d'eau, sluice, water spout, water fall, cascade, force, foss, lin, linn, ghyll, Niagara, cataract, rapids, white water, catadupe, cataclysm, debacle, inundation, deluge, chute, washout, rain, rainfall, serein, shower, scud, downpour, driving rain, drenching rain, cloudburst, hyetology, hyetography, predominance of Aquarius, reign of St. Swithin, mizzle, drizzle, stillicidum, plash, dropping, falling weather, northeaster, hurricane, typhoon, stream, course, flux, flow, profluence, effluence, defluxion, flowing, current, tide, race, coulee, spring, artesian well, fount, fountain, rill, rivulet, gill, gullet, rillet, streamlet, brooklet, branch, runnel, sike, burn, beck, creek, brook, bayou, stream, river, reach, tributary, geyser, spout, waterspout, body of water, torrent, rapids, flush, flood, swash, spring tide, high tide, full tide, bore, tidal bore, eagre, hygre, fresh, freshet, indraught, reflux, undercurrent, eddy, vortex, gurge, whirlpool, Maelstrom, regurgitation, overflow, confluence, corrivation, wave, billow, surge, swell, ripple, anerythmon gelasma, beach comber, riffle, rollers, ground swell, surf, breakers, white horses, whitecaps, rough sea, heavy sea, high seas, cross sea, long sea, short sea, chopping sea, hydrodynamics, hydraulics, hydraulicostatics, rain gauge, flowmeter, pegology, irrigation, pump, watering pot, watering cart, hydrant, syringe, garden hose, lawn spray, bhisti, mussuk, fluent, diffluent, profluent, affluent, tidal, flowing, meandering, meandry, meandrous, fluvial, fluviatile, streamy, showery, rainy, pluvial, stillicidous, stillatitious, for men may come and men may go but I go on foreve, that old man river, he just keeps rolling along.

VB flow, run, meander, gush, pour, spout, roll, jet, well, issue, drop, drip, dribble, plash, spirtle, trill, trickle, distill, percolate, stream, overflow, inundate, deluge, flow over, splash, swash, guggle, murmur, babble, bubble, purl, gurgle, sputter, spurt, spray, regurgitate, ooze, flow out, rain hard, rain in torrents, rain cats and dogs, rain pitchforks, pour with rain, drizzle, spit, set in, mizzle, flow into, fall into, open into, drain into, discharge itself, disembogue, pour, pour out, shower down, irrigate, drench, spill, splash, stanch, dam, up, obstruct.

Conduit

N conduit, channel, duct, watercourse, race, head race, tail race, abito, aboideau, aboiteau, bito, acequia, acequiador, acequiamadre, arroyo, adit, aqueduct, canal, trough, gutter, pantile, flume, ingate, runner, lock-weir, tedge, vena, dike, main, gully, moat, ditch, drain, sewer, culvert, cloaca, sough, kennel, siphon, piscina, pipe, funnel, tunnel, water pipe, waste pipe, emunctory, gully hole, artery, aorta, pore, spout, scupper, adjutage, ajutage, hose, gargoyle, gurgoyle, penstock, weir, flood gate, water gate, sluice, lock, valve, rose, waterworks, pipeline, vascular.