Definition of fountain

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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..

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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..
Staple :: Staple (n.) Hence: Place of supply; source; fountain head.
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..
Perennial :: Perennial (a.) ing or continuing through the year; as, perennial fountains..
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..
Wellspring :: Wellspring (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source of continual supply.
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..
Origin :: Origin (n.) That from which anything primarily proceeds; the fountain; the spring; the cause; the occasion.
Girandole :: Girandole (n.) A flower stand, fountain, or the like, of branching form..
Well :: Well (v. i.) Fig.: A source of supply; fountain; wellspring.
Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
Fountain :: Fountain (n.) A spring of water issuing from the earth.
Source :: Source (n.) The rising from the ground, or beginning, of a stream of water or the like; a spring; a fountain..
Castellated :: Castellated (a.) Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated..
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..
Ageless :: Ageless (a.) Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth..
Font :: Font (n.) A fountain; a spring; a source.
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..
Brim :: Brim (n.) The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border..
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..
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