Pouring
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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