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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Fount :: Fount (n.) A 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..
Wellhead :: Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain..
Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Font :: Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
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..
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..
Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
Fountainless :: Fountainless (a.) Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water.
Canopy :: Canopy (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc..
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source..
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..
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..
Emanate :: Emanate (v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate..
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..
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..
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..
Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
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..
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