v. t.
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 ]
Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
All the glittering hill
Is bright with spouting rills. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t. ]
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 ]
To put up the spout,
To shove up the spout,
To pop up the spout
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 (
a. Having no spout. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Zool.) Any marine gastropod shell of the genus
n. A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along, often several at once, sometimes straight and vertical, at other times inclined and tortuous, but always in rapid rotation. At their bases, the sea is violently agitated and heaped up with a leaping or boiling motion, water, at least in some cases, being actually carried up in considerable quantity, and scattered round from a great height, as solid bodies are by tornadoes on land. Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]