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To shoot pouts. [Scot.]

One who, or that which, pouts.

Childish sullenness.

In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.

See Bullhead, 1 (b).

A European fish (Zoarces viviparus), remarkable for producing living young; -- called also greenbone, guffer, bard, and Maroona eel. Also, an American species (Z. anguillaris), -- called also mutton fish, and, erroneously, congo eel, ling, and lamper eel. Both are edible, but of little value.

See Horned pout, under Horned.

nd 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.

One who, or that which, spouts.

A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams (Mya), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.

Having no spout. Cowper.

Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.

A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.

An arctic fish (Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.

To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.

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

il; a worm that breeds in malt, biscuit, etc. [Obs.] Tusser., n. Etym: [F., fr. bouder to pout, be sulky.]

In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.

as in a machine shop or foundry. -- Water crane, a kind of hydrant with a long swinging spout, for filling locomotive tenders, water carts, etc., with water.

A variety of pigeon with a large crop; a pouter.