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The act of going out; an airing; an excursion; as, a summer outing.

With flouting; insultingly; as, to treat a lover floutingly.

The process of filling in or finishing with grout; also, the grout thus filled in. Gwilt.

Childish sullenness.

In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.

To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett.

The spouting of a whale.

The whale; -- so called by seamen, from the circumstance of its spouting up a column of water.

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak.

louted upon their feet. Josh. ix. 5. Paul, yea, and Peter, too, had more skill in . . . clouting an old tent than to teach lawyers. Latimer.

Shouting together for joy; rejoicing together. [R.] Neale.

er, or one belonging to a corps of detached light troops engaged in forays, skirmishes, scouting, etc.

Sprouting; sending forth germs or buds.

To urge or call by shouting. He has hollowed the hounds. Sir W. Scott.

A shouting or vociferation. Hue and cry (Law), a loud outcry with which felons were anciently pursued, and which all who heard it were obliged to take up, joining in the pursuit till the malefactor was taken; in later usage, a written proclamation issued on the escape of a felon from prison, requiring all persons to ai…

A shooting forth; a spouting; a spurt; a sudden rush or gush, as of water from a pipe, or of flame from an orifice; also, that which issues in a jet.

A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament.

Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant; exulting. "The jubilant age." Coleridge. While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.

A triumphant shouting; rejoicing; exultation. "Jubilations and hallelujahs." South.

To bend; to box; to stoop. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow. He fair the knight saluted, louting low. Spenser.