▪ I. outpour, n.
(ˈaʊtpɔə(r))
[out- 7.]
The act of pouring out; that which pours out, an overflow.
| 1864 Reader 24 Dec. 793/2 On the hypotheses..that the Luta Nzige contributes the outpour of the distant Tanganyika. 1895 F. Harrison in Forum Jan. 550 None but the very greatest can maintain for long one incessant outpour of drollery. 1897 Daily News 4 Sept. 2/2 The outpour streams down the face of the rock in a number of beautiful falls. |
▪ II. outpour, v.
(aʊtˈpɔə(r))
[out- 15, 14.]
1. trans. To pour out, send forth in or as in a stream. (Chiefly poetic.)
| 1671 Milton P.R. iii. 311 He look't and saw what numbers numberless The City gates out powr'd. a 1851 Moir Poems, Burden of Sion, Then..would my sorrowing spirit haste Forth to outpour its flood of misery. 1864 Skeat Uhland's Poems 40 Only in the month of blossoms Nightingales outpour their song. |
2. intr. To flow out in or as in a stream.
| 1861 Lytton & Fane Tannhäuser 76 She was not of those whose sternest sorrow Outpours in plaints. |