Definition: spouting

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

spouting
     adj : propelled violently in a usually narrow stream [syn: jetting,
            spurting, squirting]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Spout \Spout\, 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 abudantly, as liquids through an
      office 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, spout a watch. [Cant]