Pouring

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pour \Pour\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Poured}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Pouring}.] [OE. pouren, of uncertain origin; cf. W. bwrw to
     cast, throw, shed, bwrw gwlaw to rain.]
     1. To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything
        flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it;
        as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a


        decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or
        dust.
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     2. To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let
        escape freely or wholly.
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              I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. --1
                                                    Sam. i. 15.
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              Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee.
                                                    --Ezek. vii.
                                                    8.
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              London doth pour out her citizens !   --Shak.
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              Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth
              With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ? --Milton.
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     3. To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge
        uninterruptedly.
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              Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pouring
       adj : flowing profusely; "a gushing hydrant"; "pouring flood
             waters" [syn: {gushing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  41 Moby Thesaurus words for "pouring":
     affluent, blinding, cat-and-doggish, confluent, coursing,
     decurrent, defluent, diffluent, drippy, driving, drizzling,
     drizzly, drumming, flowing, fluent, fluxional, fluxive, gulfy,
     gushing, mazy, meandering, misty, misty-moisty, mizzly, pelting,
     pluvial, pluviose, pluvious, profluent, racing, rainy, running,
     rushing, serpentine, showery, sluggish, streaming, surging, surgy,
     tidal, vortical