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▪ I. pouring, vbl. n.|ˈpɔərɪŋ| [f. pour v. + -ing1.] a. The action of the vb. pour in various senses; also, the produce of this, a quantity poured at one time.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 1411 (1460) Dispitous day thyn be þe pyne of helle... Thi pouryng In wol no where late hem dwelle. c1440Promp. Parv. 409/2 Porynge yn, infusio. Ibid., Porynge owte, effusio. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxii. 16 The pourynges out of the See were sene. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 129 It may seeme a powring of water into the Sea. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 55 ‘Pretty bottle’, says Sganarelle,..‘How envied would be my lot, wert thou to keep always full for all my pourings!’ 1836–48B. D. Walsh Aristoph. 25 note, The word..literally signifies ‘libations’, or ‘pourings out’. b. attrib. and Comb., as pouring-bottle, pouring-machine, pouring-vessel; pouring cream, cream that flows readily; single cream; pouring-jack, one of the vessels used in varnish-making.
1535Coverdale 1 Macc. i. 22 The table of the shewbred, the pouringe vessel, the chargers. 1737Whiston Josephus, Hist. v. xiii. §6 He did not abstain from those pouring vessels..sent by Augustus. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 1266 The assistant puts three copper ladlefuls of oil into the copper pouring-jack. 1866Crump Banking x. 227 The mint has eight melting furnaces,..two pouring machines. 1966P. V. Price France: Food & Wine Guide 245 Fontainebleau is a very light cream cheese, often eaten with sugar and/or pouring cream. 1971Islander (Victoria, B.C.) 13 June 8/1 Strawberries and cream go hand in hand..strawberries and pouring cream; strawberries and ice cream [etc.]. ▪ II. ˈpouring, ppl. a. [f. pour v. + -ing2.] That pours, in various senses; esp. raining heavily.
1601B. Jonson Poetaster v. ii, Powring stormes of sleet, and haile. 1625Bacon Ess., Viciss. Things (Arb.) 570 They haue such Powring Riuers, as the Riuers of Asia, and Affrick, and Europe, are but Brookes to them. 1801Southey Thalaba iii. xviii, When the pouring shower Streams adown the roof. 1853Ecclesiologist XIV. 358 At five o'clock on a pouring morning. 1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 360 They marched..in a pouring rain all night long. b. adverbially (in reference to rain).
1868Hawthorne Amer. Note-Bks. (1879) II. 234 It rained pouring. 1900Daily News 3 July 8/1 The nights had often been pouring wet. Hence ˈpouringly adv.
1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 363 Who..would not suddenly haue knowne whether it had rayned or no, so powringly high, and sweetely it fell like an Aprill shower. |