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Fountain :: Fountain (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.

Reservoir :: Reservoir (n.) A place where anything is kept in store; especially, a place where water is collected and kept for use when wanted, as to supply a fountain, a canal, or a city by means of aqueducts, or to drive a mill wheel, or the like..

Castalian :: Castalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses..

Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..

Waterwork :: Waterwork (n.) An hydraulic apparatus, or a system of works or fixtures, by which a supply of water is furnished for useful or ornamental purposes, including dams, sluices, pumps, aqueducts, distributing pipes, fountains, etc.; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Hippocrene :: Hippocrene (n.) A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burst forth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, its waters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration..

Headspring :: Headspring (n.) Fountain; source.

Naiad :: Naiad (n.) A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain..

Wellhead :: Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain..

Surge :: Surge (n.) A spring; a fountain.

Perennial :: Perennial (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains..

Head :: Head (n.) The source, fountain, spring, or beginning, as of a stream or river; as, the head of the Nile; hence, the altitude of the source, or the height of the surface, as of water, above a given place, as above an orifice at which it issues, and the pressure resulting from the height or from motion; sometimes also, the quantity in reserve; as, a mill or reservoir has a good head of water, or ten feet head; also, that part of a gulf or bay most remote from the outlet or the sea..

Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.

Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.

Well :: Well (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.

Fountainless :: Fountainless (a.) Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.

Mask :: Mask (n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron..

Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..

Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.

Play :: Play (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays..

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