spouting : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: spouting	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for spouting
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
spouting adj propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: jetting, spouting, spurting, squirting]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.] 1. 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. 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. --Creech. 2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl. 3. To pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch. [Cant]