[pawr, pohr] 
| 1. | to send (a liquid, fluid, or anything in loose particles) flowing or falling, as from one container to another, or into, over, or on something: to pour a glass of milk; to pour water on a plant. |
| 2. | to emit or propel, esp. continuously or rapidly: The hunter poured bullets into the moving object. |
| 3. | to produce or utter in or as in a stream or flood (often fol. by out): to pour out one's troubles to a friend. |
| 4. | to issue, move, or proceed in great quantity or number: Crowds poured from the stadium after the game. |
| 5. | to flow forth or along; stream: Floodwaters poured over the embankments. |
| 6. | to rain heavily (often used impersonally with it as subject): It was pouring, but fortunately we had umbrellas. |
| 7. | the act of pouring. |
| 8. | an abundant or continuous flow or stream: a pour of invective. |
| 9. | a heavy fall of rain. |
| pour (pôr, pōr) v. poured, pour·ing, pours v. tr.
[Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.] pour'er n. |