They spouted some cock-and-bull story that their mother always wanted them to have the property.
The most representative type, a long spouted pitcher used in funeral rituals, was decorated with the head of an animal.
Processes being studied include granulation, cohesion and coating in fluidized and spouted beds and in other dispersed phase devices.
Formerly, on the eve of a great eruption of Mauna Loa, this crater often spouted forth great columns of flame and emitted clouds of vapour, but in modern times this action has usually been followed by a fracture of the mountain side from the summit down to a point moo ft.