Definition of fountain

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Fountain (n.) An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament..

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Ageless :: Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth..
Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..
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..
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..
Emanation :: Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..
Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..
Pegomancy :: Pegomancy (n.) Divination by fountains.
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
Spring :: Spring (v. i.) Any source of supply; especially, the source from which a stream proceeds; as issue of water from the earth; a natural fountain..
Tridacna :: Tridacna (n.) A genus of very large marine bivalve shells found on the coral reefs of the Indian and Pacific Oceans. One species (T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell..
Hermogenian :: Hermogenian (n.) A disciple of Hermogenes, an heretical teacher who lived in Africa near the close of the second century. He held matter to be the fountain of all evil, and that souls and spirits are formed of corrupt matter..
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
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..
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Surge :: Surge (n.) A spring; a fountain.
Jet D''eau :: "Jet d'eau () A stream of water spouting from a fountain or pipe (especially from one arranged to throw water upward), in a public place or in a garden, for ornament..
Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Wellhead :: Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain..
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