† water-spouter Obs.
[spouter.]
(See quots.)
| a 1700 Evelyn Diary 24 Feb. 1651, The water-spouter, who drinking only fountaine water, rendred out of his mouth in severall glasses all sorts of wine and sweete waters, &c. 1816 A. C. Hutchison Pract. Obs. Surg. (1826) 170 See an account of Blash de Manfré, who died in 1651..and who is styled the ‘water spouter’. |