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verb

Pour v. t. (past & past part. poured; pres. part. pouring)

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.

To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly. "I... have poured out my soul before the Lord." "Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee." "London doth pour out her citizens!" "Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand?"

To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly. "Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat?"

Pour v. i. To pore. (Obs.)

Pour v. i. To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater. "In the rude throng pour on with furious pace."

noun

Pour n. A stream, or something like a stream; a flood. (Colloq.) "A pour of rain."

adjective

Pour adj. Poor. (Obs.)

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"Pour" Quotes from Famous Books

... she entered upon her regular duties the sick and wounded began to pour in, and from this time forward she was constantly employed till within a few weeks of the battle of Shiloh. With the departure of her husband's command to Tennessee, she was disposed for a like change of field-duty. She now left Richmond, and for a few weeks only was occupied with a visit to her ...

— Memories - A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War • Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers

... us, as they are still telling us, that we are to understand by it "all literary production which attains the power of giving pleasure by its form as distinct from its matter," he remained true to the creed of his great predecessors. "L'art pour art," he would say, quoting Georges Sand, "est un vain mot: l'art pour le vrai, l'art pour le beau et le bon, voila la religion que je cherche." When he succeeded to the laureateship he was proud to remember that the wreath which had ...

— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson

... motionless, watching her retreating figure. An extraordinary sense of loss came into his mind, a vague impulse to pursue her and pour out vague ...

— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells

... tea-spoonful of sugar of lead in water, and pour the clear solution into a decanter or large glass bottle. Then take a small piece of zinc, and twist round it some brass or copper wire, so as to let the ends of the wire depend from it in any agreeable form. Suspend the zinc and wire ...

— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers

... intricate designs and endless variety of delicate and ingenious stitches had come to have symbolic meanings for her full of mystic significance. In them she poured forth her soul, as another might pour it forth in music, finding there an imaginative language far surpassing, in its subtlety of suggestion, articulate speech. There were deserts of net, of spider's web fineness, to be laboriously traversed; hills of difficulty to be climbed, whence far horizons disclosed themselves; dainty flower-gardens, ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

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