Word Meanings - HURRICANO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A waterspout; a hurricane. Drayton. "You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout." Shak.

SPOUTSHELL
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
SPOUTLESS
Having no spout. Cowper.
SPOUT
and E. spurt, sprit, v., sprout, sputter; or perhaps akin to E. spit 1. To throw out forcibly and abudantly, as liquids through an office or a pipe; to eject in a jet; as, an elephant spouts water from his trunk. Who kept Jonas in the fish's maw
WATERSPOUT
A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land. Note: Tall columns, apparently of cloud, and reaching from the sea to the clouds, are seen moving along,
SPOUTER
One who, or that which, spouts.
HURRICANE
A violent storm, characterized by extreme fury and sudden changes of the wind, and generally accompanied by rain, thunder, and lightning; -- especially prevalent in the East and West Indies. Also used figuratively. Like the smoke in a hurricane
SPOUTFISH
A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams , which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes.