\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]

\Spout\, v. i.
1. 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.
         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.

\Spout\, n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See
{Spout}, v. t.]
1. 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. --Addison. ``A conduit with three
   issuing spouts.'' --Shak.
         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]