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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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Etymology of 'Pour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... which put it upon a level with the first one;" (that is, in the middle of it,) "and the third, which is of bronze, rests upon three figures which have in the middle of them some griffins, of bronze too, which pour water ...

— Val d'Arno • John Ruskin

... Arnhiem, a eu la bonte de me confier quelques antiquites provenant des anciens habitants du Yucatan et de l'Amerique Centrale, avec autorisation d'en faire prendre des fac-similes pour le Musee, ce qui me permet de les faire connaitre aux membres du Congres. Elles ont ete trouvees enfouies a une grande profondeur dans le sol, lors de la construction d'un canal, vers la riviere Gracioza, pres de San ...

— Studies in Central American Picture-Writing • Edward S. Holden

... visiting an asylum, you see two or three different patients buttonhole a fourth and pour their grievances into a listening ear, you may safely suspect ...

— A Terrible Temptation - A Story of To-Day • Charles Reade

... priests tell us that Benares is holy—which none doubt—and desirable to die in. But I do not know their Gods, and they ask for money; and when one has done one worship a shaved-head vows it is of none effect except one do another. Wash here! Wash there! Pour, drink, lave, and scatter flowers—but always pay the priests. No, the Punjab for me, and the soil of the Jullundur-doab for the best soil ...

— Kim • Rudyard Kipling

... leaden, mono- tonous sands And piled them up in a dull grey heap in the West. I carry my patience sullenly through the waste lands; To-morrow will pour them all back, ...

— Bay - A Book of Poems • D. H. Lawrence

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