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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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..
Brim :: Brim (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border..
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source..
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
Springiness :: Springhead (n.) A fountain or source.
Emanation :: Emanation (n.) The act of flowing or proceeding from a fountain head or origin.
Puit :: Puit (n.) A well; a small stream; a fountain; a spring.
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..
Font :: Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
Canopy :: Canopy (n.) Also, a rooflike covering, supported on pillars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc..
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..
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..
Fountful :: Fountful (a.) Full of fountains.
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..
Wellhead :: Wellhead (n.) A source, spring, or fountain..
Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
Well :: Well (v. i.) An issue of water from the earth; a spring; a fountain.
Fontal :: Fontal (a.) Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive..
Fount :: Fount (n.) A fountain.
Perennial :: Perennial (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains..
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