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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Spout \Spout\ (spout), verb (used with an object) [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.
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.
2. To utter magniloquently; to recite in an oratorical or pompous manner.
Pray, spout some French, son. --Beau. & Fl.
3. To pawn; to pledge; as, to spout a watch. [Cant]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
spouting
adjective: propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: {jetting}, {spurting}, {squirting}]
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