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  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] 




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