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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Origin :: Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Well :: Well (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.
Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..
Font :: Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
Emanation :: Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Narcissus :: Narcissus (n.) A beautiful youth fabled to have been enamored of his own image as seen in a fountain, and to have been changed into the flower called Narcissus..
Headspring :: Headspring (n.) Fountain; source.
Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
Ageless :: Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth..
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..
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..
Ajutage :: Ajutage (n.) A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain..
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..
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..
Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
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..
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..
Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
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