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The European eelpout; -- called also lumpen.

A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.

end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. -- Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden. -- Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman. -- To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons…

A projecting end or beak at the front of an object; a snout; a nozzle; a spout; as, the nose of a bellows; the nose of a teakettle. Nose bit (Carp.), a bit similar to a gouge bit, but having a cutting edge on one side of its boring end. -- Nose hammer (Mach.), a frontal hammer. -- Nose hole (Glass Making), a small op…

flask or vessel for oils or liquids; afterward, an earthenware vase or pitcher without a spout.

A wide-mouthed, deep vessel for holding liquids, with a spout or protruding lip and a handle; a water jug or jar with a large ear or handle.

To pout. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

See Pouter.

A perforated nozzle, as of a pipe, spout, etc., for delivering water in fine jets; a rosehead; also, a strainer at the foot of a pump.

of gastropods having the mantle border, on one or both sides, prolonged in the form of a spout through which water enters the gill cavity. The shell itself is not always siphonostomatous in this group.

A small tube or spout inserted in a tree for conducting sap, as from a sugar maple.

The bib, or whiting pout. [Prov. Eng.]

A vessel with a spout, in which tea is made, and from which it is poured into teacups.

To roll; to spout; to boil up. [Obs.] Holland.

A waterspout. [Obs.]

in putty, for cleaning silver, etc. Whiting pollack. (Zoöl.) Same as Pollack. -- Whiting pout (Zoöl.), the bib, 2.

ex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant.

Spontaneous; self-moved. [R.] No spouts of blood run willing from a tree. Dryden.