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Bible Dictionaries
Spout
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(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.
(2):
(v. i.) To issue with 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.
(3):
(v. i.) To eject water or liquid in a jet.
(4):
(v. t.) A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
(5):
(v. t.) A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
(6):
(v. i.) To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
(7):
(v. t.) To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk.
(8):
(v. t.) To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
(9):
(v. t.) To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Spout'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/spout.html. 1828.
