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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Fountain :: Fountain (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source..
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a 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..
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..
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..
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..
Headspring :: Headspring (n.) Fountain; source.
Play :: Play (n.) To move in any manner; especially, to move regularly with alternate or reciprocating motion; to operate; to act; as, the fountain plays..
Emanate :: Emanate (v. i.) To proceed from, as a source or fountain; to take origin; to arise, to originate..
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..
Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
Wellhead :: Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain..
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
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..
Sprinkled :: Springy (superl.) Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as, springy land..
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..
Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
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..
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