spoutingn.1
/ˈspaʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspaʊdɪŋ/ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > action of slavering > [noun] > action of spitting
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sputation1657
sputtering1699
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c1390 Talkyng of Love of God (Vernon) (1950) 48 (MED) Heo..spitten in þi face..And maden hit so wlatsum..wiþ betyng & busting and spittyng & spoutyng.
2. The action or an act of issuing or discharging in a spout or stream of liquid.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [noun] > large member of (whale) > spouting whale > spouting
spouting1568
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > copious emission or effusion
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spouting1568
profusion1583
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [noun]
spouting1611
sprouting1611
sprounting1691
jetting1702
spirting1845
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > sudden or violent > in a jet
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1568 T. Granger True Wonder of .XVII. Monstrous Fisshes (single sheet) Upon theyr heds were holes..out of the which they did spoute a great quantitie of water whyle they were a takinge, that they had almoste dround .ii. boates men and all, with spoutynge of water.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Sourgeon,..the rising, boyling, or spouting vp of water in a spring.
1665 J. Glanvill Sciri Tuum: Authors Defense 34 in Scepsis Scientifica No more difficulty in this Hypothesis neither, then in the direct spouting of water out of a Pipe.
1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. ii. v. 274 A lay-brother..instantly returned about a pint of what he had taken down in such furious and divergent spoutings from his mouth and nostrils, that he handsomely soused his two collaterals.
1889 Nature 21 Mar. 482 The waste occasioned by ‘spouting’ [of oil-wells] is at times enormous.
1934 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 4 Aug. 207/1 Increased tension was obvious from the spouting of the cerebro-spinal fluid.
1995 Pure Appl. Geophysics 1 145 The spouting of wells and bore-holes, which occurred during the catastrophic earthquakes in Gazli in 1984 and Tangshan in 1976.
2006 K. Bharatdwaj Physical Geogr. vii. 322 There is continuous spouting of water from the former [sc. hot springs].
3. Declamation or recitation, esp. delivered at length or without thought or reflection; speechifying; prattling. Also as a count noun: an outpouring of words.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun]
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recitation1623
absolutiona1637
rendition1851
rep1858
1581 N. Woodes Conflict of Conscience (new ed.) ii. iii. sig. Ciiij The nature of Hypocrites, heerein we rehearce: Which being conuinced by the text of Gods worde, The ende of their spowting is Fyre and Sword.
1764 Cap & Staff 15 If his famed spoutings were on paper seen, His boasted wreaths would look not half so green.
1788 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 2) Spouting, theatrical declamation.
1805 M. Cutler Let. 12 Jan. in W. P. Cutler & J. P. Cutler Life, Jrnls. & Corr. M. Cutler (1888) II. 185 There was much spouting, and some handsome speaking.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xxxiv. 299 To be freed..from the dreary spouting of the Reverend Bartholomew Irons.
1929 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 310/1 The weeping of women, the spouting of poets and the struttings of heroes.
1986 Scouting Mar. 19/2 Keep your trap shut and let others do the spouting.
2010 J. D. Holst in P. Mayo Gramsci & Educ. Thought iii. 51 Revolutions were not coups or the spouting of militant rhetoric.
Compounds
C1. attributive in sense 3, esp. designating a club or place where people practise or engage in recitation, declamation, or oratory, as spouting club, spouting place, spouting society, etc. Now historical.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > society for
spouting club1781
spouting society1806
1756 A. Murphy Apprentice Epilogue I could have shewn him, had he been inclin'd, A spouting Junto of the Female Kind.
1781 V. Knox Liberal Educ. §20 Neither is it desirable, that he should acquire that love..of declaiming, which may introduce him to spouting clubs, or disputing societies.
1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 136 The spouting action of a player.
1806 H. Siddons Maid, Wife, & Widow II. 146 He was a great orator at the spouting societies.
1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xiii. 263 For any thing of the Acting, Spouting, Reciting kind, I think he has always a decided taste. View more context for this quotation
1845 T. Carlyle 11 Nov. in Corr. Emerson & Carlyle (1964) 384 The sugary twaddle one gets the offer of in Exeter-Hall and other Spouting-places!
1858 A. Mayhew Paved with Gold 279 Give him a spoutin-box and black togs and he'd send such chaps as you and me..singing psalms before a week was gone.
1884 E. Yates Recoll. & Experiences I. iii. 99 ‘The Lays of Ancient Rome’ had been favourite spouting-pieces at Highgate.
1902 Sketch 31 Dec. 406/2 Their spouting-place and clerical offices must be part of the Great River Frontage.
1978 P. H. Highfill et al. Biogr. Dict. Actors V. 20/1 Much of the rest of his time during 1764 he spent enthralled by the amateur declamation at the 'spouting club' which perennially held forth at the French Horn tavern.
2014 M. Carlson in J. Swindells & D. F. Taylor Oxf. Handbk. Georgian Theatre iii. 50 Murphy's farce disseminated the possibility of amateur theatricals far more broadly than a Cheapside spouting club.
C2. attributive, with the sense ‘having or functioning as a spout’, as spouting-canal, spouting hole, spouting tube, etc. Now somewhat rare.
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1717 W. Vream Descr. Air-pump 11 Screw a spouting Tube to the upper Part.
1735 M. Clare Motion of Fluids 108 'Twill always be found necessary to increase the Bore of the Adjutage or Spouting-pipe, with the Height of the Reservatory.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 581/1 The orifice of the spouting hole..is situated towards the summit of the head.
a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 344/1 The Gangetic Dolphin is remarkable for..a roof over the spouting apparatus.
1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 151 The spouting-canal [in the whale] may perform both the offices attributed to it.
1905 Perry Mag. Apr. 373/1 It was thought that geysers were simply boiling springs that had built for themselves spouting tubes.
2000 L. Morgan in A. Knutson Best of Growing Edge ii. 26 Channels made specifically for hydroponics have modifications that make them superior to other spouting channels.
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spoutingn.2
/ˈspaʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspaʊdɪŋ/ A roof spout or drainpipe; these considered collectively; (also) material used or suitable for these. Cf. spout n. 1.
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society > occupation and work > materials > types of material generally > [noun] > building-material > for other parts
skiftingc1450
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spouting1838
trussing1840
undercloak1896
shuttering1898
screed1937
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > spout > collectively
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1838 Dublin Jrnl. Med. Sci. 12 491 Every house..had a tank or water-cellar under the dwelling, supplied by spoutings to catch the rain water from the roof.
1845 A. W. Pugin Let. 24 May (2001) II. 391 The spouting must be plain iron spouting.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. III. 2288/2 Spout-plane, a round-soled plane used in hollowing out stuff for spouting and troughs.
1885 Law Times 23 May 65/1 It was necessary to put up a ladder to the roof for the purpose of priming some spouting.
1894 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3rd Ser. 5 288 The spoutings of the farm buildings contribute a great deal to the contents of all such ponds.
1970 H. Braun Parish Churches xi. 144 The spoutings or gargoyles are set out along the line of this string-course.
1988 DIY Today Apr. 46/4 In several northern cities eg Sheffield, many properties have timber guttering which is referred to locally as ‘spouting’.
2015 Plus Patent News (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 9 Feb. Building materials predominantly not of metal including guttering, spouting, drainage.., rainwater harvesting and management apparatus.
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spoutingadj.
/ˈspaʊtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈspaʊdɪŋ/ΚΠ
1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) iv. sig. L.iiiv By this [sc. wit] the bull doth beare the yoke and horse with spouting might By thys constrained is to beare the bridle, and the knight.
2. That issues in a spout or stream; gushing.
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid which has been emitted > action or process of emitting copiously > [adjective] > emitting
spouting1566
welling1573
scaturient1684
sluicya1703
gushing1717
1566 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon v. i. sig. F.viiiv From the carkas ded The spoutyng blood cam gusshing out.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 291 With spouting Blood the Purple Pavement swims.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 202 That is called spouting Water, which..forms single Jets, Sheafs, Bubblings of Water, &c.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xxi. 183 One [lance] raz'd Achilles Hand; the spouting Blood Spun forth.
1768 H. Walpole Mysterious Mother ii. iii. 42 Tho' the storm Abates its clamours, yonder angry clouds Are big with spouting fires.
1839 tr. A. de Lamartine Trav. in East 127/1 Guards are placed..to watch over the safety of the khan;..fountains of spouting water keep it always cool.
1866 J. T. Trowbridge South viii. 118 There I stood, and saw in imagination..the terrible roaring battle, the spouting flames, the smoke.., and the horrible slaughter.
1956 W. O. Douglas Russ. Journey ii. 55 Seen from below, the spouting water, the basins, and the statues form as beautiful a scene as the famous Versailles.
1998 A. Whiston Spirn Lang. of Landscape xiv. 65 Some people bring beach balls to balance on top of the spouting water.
2011 States New Service (Nexis) 1 Sept. The disaster area has spouting flames, clouds of smoke, burning cars and buildings that have been reduced to piles of rubble.
3.
a. That discharges a spout or stream of liquid.Difficult to distinguish from sense 2 when qualifying words such as fountain, spring, etc., and it is unclear whether the water itself or its source is being described.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [adjective] > emitting > emitting copiously
spouting1567
welling1573
teeming1627
diffusive?1630
diabetic1673
gushing1717
1567 G. Turberville tr. G. B. Spagnoli Eglogs iv. f. 33 The Fountayns eke & spouting springs.
1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot i. i. 3 That other Knight.., whom I may call the Knight of the high Scurrado, or the Spouting-Pestle.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. iii. 5 I will say in another place, what Water is in the Pipes of spouting Fountains.
1719 E. Young Busiris i. 13 Come, I conjure you, by the Prisoner's Chain,..The Virgin's Shrieks, the Heroe's spouting Veins.
1780 tr. U. von Troil Lett. on Iceland 256 At Geyser is the largest of all the spouting-springs in Iceland.
1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 9 The wreck that lies on the spouting reef Where the ghastly blue-lights flare.
1906 J. P. Whitney Reminisc. Sportsman 356 Upon the other side were the spouting rocks, and the foaming washes of the broken waves.
1944 Pop. Photogr. Nov. 22 Corsini caught [i.e. photographed] the men repairing spouting pipes when the water froze before it hit the ground.
1994 K. Brady Lucille xi. 164 If..a boat or barrel sprung a leak, she discovered it, gasped, and plugged the spouting hole.
b. Designating a whale of a kind which throws up a spout (spout n. 10d) during respiration; (also) designating a whale in the act of throwing up a spout; blowing. Cf. spout v. 2d.
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the world > animals > mammals > order Cetacea (whales) > [adjective] > of or like a whale > spouting
spouting1648
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Een Spuyt-wal, a Spouting whale.
1668 W. Charleton Onomasticon Zoicon 167 Balæna Physeter,..the puffing, or spouting Whale.
1738 G. Lillo Marina 26 The spouting whale, And dashing waters that roll o'er her head, Compose a monument to hide her bones.
1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 576/1 The Spouting Whales always feed upon living food.
a1836 Encycl. Metrop. (1845) VII. 339/2 The Spouting Family, which includes the Porpesse-like and Whale-like Tribes.
1843 Penny Cycl. XXVII. 287/2 The Zoophagous or Spouting Cetaceans.
1904 Celtic Rev. 1 144 Those which threw great quantities of water from their mouths, are easily reducible to spouting whales.
1985 T. C. Boyle Whales Weep in Greasy Lake & Other Stories (1985) 100 Audubon wanted some wide-angles of spouting whales for an article.
2013 L. Abravanel & L. Miller Frommer's Florida xi. 518 Ketchakiddie Creek..has bubbling fountains.., spouting whales and squirting seals.
4. Characterized by declamation, recitation, or oratory, esp. when delivered at length or without thought or reflection. In later use frequently with a premodifying noun indicating what is being declaimed or recited.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [adjective] > lecturing or declamatory
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spouting1630
haranguing1708
lecturing1797
preachy1819
table-thumping1908
1630 J. Taylor Laugh & be Fat in Wks. 79/2 Once more, Reader, humbly I entreat, That I in spowting Prose may now repeat His Oratories smooth-fac'd Epilogue.
1756 D. Garrick in A. Murphy Apprentice Prol. Look round—you'll find some Spouting Youths among ye.
1796 F. Reynolds Fortune's Fool iv. 50 In the garret is a spouting author.
1889 John Bull 2 Mar. 140 The spouting agitator whose speeches have incited to these criminal deeds.
1903 N.Y. Times 2 Dec. 6 The cast is not without strength... George Fox shows ability as a Shakespeare-spouting aspirant for the stage.
1905 Liberty Rev. Oct. 148 No place and no function left for the spouting politician.
1972 N.Y. Times 27 Feb. d6/2 A Bible-spouting missionary who is two conversions short.
1992 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 3 Oct. b6 Its witty, irreverent definitions should make every cliché-spouting politician cringe.
2013 E. Fernie Demonic xiii. 137 At one point, Faust seems to hear a choir of a hundred thousand spouting mad men.
Compounds
spouting well n. now rare (a) an outlet from which water naturally gushes under pressure, as a geyser; (b) an oil well from which oil flows or spouts without pumping; = spouter n. 1b.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > oil rig > [noun] > well
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spouting well1776
petroleum well1801
rock well1830
oil well1859
spouter1865
gusher1876
test well1877
wild cat1877
wildcat well1883
roarera1885
oiler1890
discovery1900
edge well1904
wild well1915
offset well1922
stripper1930
offset1933
production well1934
outstep1947
step-out well1948
1776 R. E. Raspe tr. J. J. Ferber Trav. Italy 349 Geysers at Laugafel, hot spouting wells.
1861 Chem. News 28 Sept. 164/2 At about 325 feet in depth, there is about 40 feet of white sandstone, near the top of which ‘spouting wells’ are found.
1898 Knowledge 1 June 124/2 The ‘spouting’ wells of Russia entirely eclipse those of America in output.
1912 W. S. Tower & J. Roberts Petroleum v. 83 On the basis of the general character of the yield wells are divided into two classes, the flowing, spouting, or gushing wells, and the pumping wells.
1966 Prof. Papers U.S. Geol. Surv. No. 517. 112/2 One of the well known spouting wells..on the south side of Lake Fairview northwest of Orlando drains water from the lake when the lake level is above the mouth of the well.
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