Definition of fountain

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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..

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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..
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..
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..
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
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..
Emanation :: Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Headspring :: Headspring (n.) Fountain; source.
Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
Surge :: Surge (n.) A spring; a fountain.
Brim :: Brim (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border..
Fountain :: 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..
Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..
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..
Fountainless :: Fountainless (a.) Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
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..
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..
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..
Ageless :: Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth..
Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain..
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