Definition of: spout

(spout) v.i.
1. To pour out copiously and forcibly, as a liquid under pressure.
2. To discharge a fluid either continuously or in jets.
3. Colloq. To speak or orate pompously; declaim.
—v.t.
4. To cause to pour or shoot forth.
5. To utter grandiloquently or pompously.
6. Brit. Slang To pawn or pledge.
—noun
1. A tube, trough, etc., for the discharge of a liquid.
2. A continuous stream of fluid.
3. Formerly, the shoot or lift in a pawnbroker's shop.
4. Brit. Slang A pawnbroker's shop. [ME spoute; origin uncertain]
—spout′er noun