Definition of "gout"

Once gout was confined largely to Western civilization (with some outliers, like the Mongol ruler Kublai Khan); now its ravages are global.

2020 November 13, Ligaya Mishan, “Once the Disease of Gluttonous Aristocrats, Gout Is Now Tormenting the Masses”, in The New York Times‎

I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], page 136

[S]mall chunks of rubble and gouts of soot had fallen from the chimney, and were ground into the rug under his unwary feet.

1981, P. D. James, chapter 20, in Children of Men, page 137

Another blow sent gouts of blood flying, along with gobbets of flesh.

2002, Mercedes Lackey, Eric Flint, Dave Freer, The Shadow of the Lion‎

Dark blood gouts from the creature's brisket.

2001, Stephen King, Peter Straub, Black House

After a time, however, he became more sensible of the reviving influence proceeding from renewed energy; luxurious indolence had for ever lost to him its goût; […]

1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVIII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 232

A modern refinement is to put laver in the dripping-pan, which, in basting, imparts a high gout: or a large saddle may be served over a pound and a half of laver, stewed in brown sauce with catsup […]

1870, The Cook and Housewife's Manual, 5th edition