All the glittering hill Is bright with spouting
rills. --Thomson.
2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
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]
In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is
contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. --Sir
T. Browne.
From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide.
--Pope.
2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a
receptacle.
3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when
rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
{To put}, {shove}, or {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]