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n. [ AS. &unr_;lepute. ] (Zoöl.) (a) 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. (b) A fresh-water fish, the burbot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) See Horned pout, under Horned. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To shoot pouts. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. poulet. See Poult. ] The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. Carew. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Pouted; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouting. ] [ OE. pouten, of uncertain origin; cf. Prov. pot lip, Prov. F. potte, faire la potte to pout, W. pwdu to pout, be sullen, poten, potten, a paunch, belly. ] 1. To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To protrude. “Pouting lips.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. “Jack's in the pouts.” J. & H. Smith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Eelpout. ] (Zool.) The European whiting pout or bib. [ 1913 Webster ]

Eel pout. (Zool.) See Eelpout. --
Horn pout, or
Horned pout. (Zool.) See Bullhead (b). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, pouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. [ Cf. E. pout, and G. puter turkey. ] (Zool.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Childish sullenness. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a pouting, or a sullen, manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 abundantly, as liquids through an orifice or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw
Till he was spouted up at Ninivee? Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . .
He spouts the tide. Creech. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To issue with violence, or in a jet, as a liquid through a narrow orifice, or from a spout; as, water spouts from a hole; blood spouts from an artery. [ 1913 Webster ]

All the glittering hill
Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To eject water or liquid in a jet. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t. ] 1. That through which anything spouts; a discharging lip, pipe, or orifice; a tube, pipe, or conductor of any kind through which a liquid is poured, or by which it is conveyed in a stream from one place to another; as, the spout of a teapot; a spout for conducting water from the roof of a building. Addison. “A conduit with three issuing spouts.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In whales . . . an ejection thereof [ water ] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout. [ 1913 Webster ]

To put up the spout,
To shove up the spout, or
To pop up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [ Cant ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, spouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no spout. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera. [ 1913 Webster ]