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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pour \Pour\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Poured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouring}.] [OE. pouren, of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwrw to cast, throw, shed, bwrw gwlaw to rain.]
1. To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
2. To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. --1 Sam. i. 15.
Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. --Ezek. vii. 8.
London doth pour out her citizens ! --Shak.
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ? --Milton.
3. To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? --Pope.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pouring
adjective: flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood waters" [syn: {gushing}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
41 Moby Thesaurus words for "pouring": affluent, blinding, cat-and-doggish, confluent, coursing, decurrent, defluent, diffluent, drippy, driving, drizzling, drizzly, drumming, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, gulfy, gushing, mazy, meandering, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, pelting, pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, profluent, racing, rainy, running, rushing, serpentine, showery, sluggish, streaming, surging, surgy, tidal, vortical
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