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 ]