SPOUT

vi to eject water or liquid in a jet.

2. spout ·vi to utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.

3. spout ·vt a trough for conducting grain, flour, ·etc., into a receptacle.

4. spout ·vt to utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.

5. spout ·vt to pawn; to pledge; as, spout a watch.

6. spout ·vt a discharge or jet of water or other liquid, ·esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.

7. spout ·vt 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. spout ·vi 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.

9. spout ·vt 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.