a. [f. SPOUT sb.] Destitute or deprived of a spout.

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1784.  Cowper, Task, IV. 776. There the pitcher stands A fragment, and the spoutless tea-pot there.

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1824.  Blackw. Mag., XV. 152. An old squat spoutless china tea-pot.

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1857.  Geo. Eliot, Ess. (1884), 73. The spoutless tea-pot holding a bit of mignonette.

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1897.  Mary Kingsley, W. Africa, 209. These utensils are spoutless and round.

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