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Spout
v. i.
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To issue with 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.
Spout
v. i.
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To eject water or liquid in a jet.
Spout
v. i.
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To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout
v. t.
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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.
Spout
v. t.
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A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc., into a receptacle.
Spout
v. t.
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A discharge or jet of water or other liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
Spouter
n.
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One who, or that which, spouts.
Spoutfish
n.
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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.
Spoutless
a.
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Having no spout.
Spoutshell
n.
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Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
Sprack
a.
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Quick; lively; alert.
Sprad
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p. p. of Spread.
Spradde
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imp. of Spread.
Sprag
n.
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A young salmon.
Sprag
n.
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A billet of wood; a piece of timber used as a prop.
Spragged
imp. & p. p.
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of Sprag
Spragging
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Sprag
Sprag
v. t.
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To check the motion of, as a carriage on a steep grade, by putting a sprag between the spokes of the wheel.
Sprag
v. t.
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To prop or sustain with a sprag.
Sprag
a.
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See Sprack, a.
Sprained
imp. & p. p.
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of Sprain
Spraining
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Sprain
Sprain
v. t.
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To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
Sprain
n.
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The act or result of spraining; lameness caused by spraining; as, a bad sprain of the wrist.
Spraints
v. t.
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The dung of an otter.
Sprang
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imp. of Spring.
Sprat
n.
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A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Sprat
n.
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A California surf-fish (Rhacochilus toxotes); -- called also alfione, and perch.
Sprawled
imp. & p. p.
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of Sprawl
Sprawling
p. pr. & vb. n.
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of Sprawl