Word Meanings - SPURT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope.

Additional info about word: SPURT

To gush or issue suddenly or violently out in a stream, as liquor from a cask; to rush from a confined place in a small stream or jet; to spirt. Thus the small jet, which hasty hands unlock, Spurts in the gardener's eyes who turns the cock. Pope. (more info) as sprit; OE. sprutten to sprout, AS. spryttan. See Sprit, v. i.,

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• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• TURNSTONE
  Any species of limicoline birds of the genera Strepsilas and Arenaria, allied to the plovers, especially the common American and European species . They are so called from their habit of turning up small stones in search of mollusks and
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• CONFINABLE
  Capable of being confined, restricted, or limited. Not confinable to any limits. Bp. Hall.
• UNLOCK
  1. To unfasten, as what is locked; as, to unlock a door or a chest. 2. To open, in general; to lay open; to undo. Unlock your springs, and open all your shades. Pope. unlock the spell of sin. J. H. Newman.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• TURNSPIT
  A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting. (more info) 1. One who turns a spit; hence, a person engaged in some menial office. His lordship
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• TURNSOLE
  + sole the sun, L. sol. See Turn, Solar, a., and cf. A plant of the genus Heliotropium; heliotrope; -- so named because its flowers are supposed to turn toward the sun. The sunflower. A kind of spurge . The euphorbiaceous plant Chrozophora
• LIQUORISH
  See SHAK
• STREAMLET
  A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ISSUER
  One who issues, emits, or publishes.
• STREAM WHEEL
  A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
• PLACER
  One who places or sets. Spenser.
• PLACE
  Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe
• LIQUORICE
  See LICORICE
• REISSUE
  To issue a second time.
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• TISSUED
  Clothed in, or adorned with, tissue; also, variegated; as, tissued flowers. Cowper. And crested chiefs and tissued dames Assembled at the clarion's call. T. Warton.
• UPSTREAM
  Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like