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. ] 1. 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? Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . .
He spouts the tide. Creech. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. 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. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t. ] 1. 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. Addison. “A conduit with three issuing spouts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. 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 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, spouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no spout. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along, often several at once, sometimes straight and vertical, at other times inclined and tortuous, but always in rapid rotation. At their bases, the sea is violently agitated and heaped up with a leaping or boiling motion, water, at least in some cases, being actually carried up in considerable quantity, and scattered round from a great height, as solid bodies are by tornadoes on land. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]