Now, anyone can spout conservative rhetoric. when rising in a column also, a waterspoutĮtymology: 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 buildingĪ trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacleĪ discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner 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 To utter magniloquently to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner 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 Webster Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votes It spouts up out of deep wells, and flies forth at the tops of them, upon the face of the ground. Till out it rush’d, expell’d by streams of spouting blood. No hands cou’d force it thence, so fixt it stood, They laid them down hard by the murmuring musick of certain waters, which spouted out of the side of the hills. He twists his back, and rears his threatning tail: Next on his belly floats the mighty whale To heav’n, that heav’n mens cruelties might know. ![]() She swims in blood, and blood does spouting throw I intend two fountains, the one that sprinkleth or spouteth water, the other a fair receipt of water. Which here we came to spout against your town. We will bear home that lusty blood again, To pour with violence, or in a collected body as from a spout. The force of these motions pressing more in some places than in others, there would fall not showers, but great spouts or cascades of water. William Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida. In his descent, than shall my prompted sword Shall dizzy with more clamour Neptune’s ear Water falling in a body a cataract, such as is seen in the hot climates when clouds sometimes discharge all their water at once. In this single cathedral the very spouts are loaded with ornaments.įrom silver spouts the grateful liquors glide,Īnd China’s earth receives the smoking tide.Īlexander Pope. Let the water be fed by some higher than the pool, and delivered into it by fair spouts, and then discharged by some equality of bores that it stay little. In Gaza they couch vessels of earth in their walls to gather the wind from the top, and to pass it down in spouts into rooms. ![]() In whales that breathe, lest the water should get unto the lungs, an ejection thereof is contrived by a fistula or spout at the head.Īs waters did in storms, now pitch runs out,Īs lead, when a fir’d church becomes one spout. She gasping to begin some speech, her eyesīecame two spouts. A pipe, or mouth of a pipe or vessel out of which any thing is poured. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary Rate this definition: 0.0 / 0 votesĮtymology: from spuyt, Dutch.
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