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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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SPOUT, n. [G., to spit, and spotten is to mock, banter, sport. These are of one family; spout retaining nearly the primary and literal meaning. See Bud and Pout.]
SPOUT, v.t.
SPOUT, v.i. To issue with violence, as a liquid through a narrow orifice or from a spout; as, water spouts from a cask or a spring; blood spouts from a vein.
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 Next on his belly floats the mighty whale . . . To utter magniloquently; to recite in an
oratorical or pompous manner.
Pray, spout some French, son. Beau. *** Fl. To pawn] to pledge; as, spout a
watch.
[Cant] 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.
All the glittering hill To eject water or liquid in a
jet.
To utter a speech, especially in a pompous
manner.
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.
Addison. "A conduit with three issuing spouts."
Shak.
In whales . . . an ejection thereof [water] is contrived by a fistula, or spout, at the head. Sir T. Browne. From silver spouts the grateful liquors glide. Pope. A trough for conducting grain, flour, etc.,
into a receptacle.
A discharge or jet of water or other
liquid, esp. when rising in a column; also, a waterspout.
To put, shove, or pop, up the spout, to pawn or pledge at a pawnbroker's; -- in allusion to the spout up which the pawnbroker sent the ticketed articles. [Cant] | ||||||||