Definition of fountain

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

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Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
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..
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..
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..
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
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..
Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; 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..
Ajutage :: Ajutage (n.) A tube through which water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain..
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..
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Emanation :: Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Castalian :: Castalian (a.) Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses..
Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
Pegomancy :: Pegomancy (n.) Divination by fountains.
Origin :: Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
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..
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