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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.

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.

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.

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.

Any device for stopping or changing a current, as of grain or water in a spout.

A trough or spout to carry off water, as from a pump. Knight.

such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide.

ction from one which lifts the water only to the top of the pump or delivers it through a spout. See Illust. of Plunger pump, under Plunger.

A water cooler or jug with a handle and spout; a gurglet. Mollett.

A spout projecting from the roof gutter of a building, often carved grotesquely. [Written also gargle, gargyle, and gurgoyle.]

The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting. [Written also git, gate.]

A waterspout; a hurricane. [Obs.] Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.

A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.

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.