2. A married man, in distinct from a spousess or married woman; a bridegroom or husband. [Obs.]
At which marriage was [were] no person present but the spouse, the spousess, the Duchess of Bedford
her mother, the priest, two gentlewomen, and a young man.
Fabyan. Spouse
(Spouse) v. t. [See Espouse, and Spouse, n.] To wed; to espouse. [Obs.]
This markis hath her spoused with a ring.
Chaucer.
Though spoused, yet wanting wedlock's solemnize.
Spenser.
She was found again, and spoused to Marinell.
Spenser. Spouse-breach
(Spouse"-breach`) n. Adultery. [Obs.]
Spouseless
(Spouse"less), a. Destitute of a spouse; unmarried.
Spousess
(Spous"ess), n. A wife or bride. [Obs.] Fabyan.
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]
Spout
(Spout), v. i.
1. 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
Is bright with spouting rills.
Thomson. 2. To eject water or liquid in a jet.
3. To utter a speech, especially in a pompous manner.
Spout
(Spout), n. [Cf. Sw. spruta a squirt, a syringe. See Spout, v. t.]
1. 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.
