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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 reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc..

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

Stream :: Stream (n.) A current of water or other fluid; a liquid flowing continuously in a line or course, either on the earth, as a river, brook, etc., or from a vessel, reservoir, or fountain; specifically, any course of running water; as, many streams are blended in the Mississippi; gas and steam came from the earth in streams; a stream of molten lead from a furnace; a stream of lava from a volcano..

Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.

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

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

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

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..

Emanate :: Emanate (v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate..

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

Fountain :: Fountain (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; 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..

Origin :: Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.

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

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

Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain..

Ajutage :: Ajutage (n.) A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain..

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..

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..

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