fount

IPA: fˈaʊnt

noun

  • Something from which water flows.
  • A device from which poultry may drink.
  • (figuratively) That from which something flows or proceeds; a source.
  • (typography, UK, dated) A typographic font.
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Examples of "fount" in Sentences

  • I have no helper76 but my tears that ever flow in fount,
  • Of the Devanagari character we have also cast an entire new fount, which is esteemed the most beautiful of the kind in India.
  • Holytaco is 4chan Lite (also known as a fount of puerile, sexist low-brow humor), but this is one of the few gems I've ever seen come out of it.
  • The rite of my infancy was performed as became a soldier's son; my fount was my father's helmet, and the first pap I sucked lay on the point of his sword.
  • There are three very old images, one at the front, and two on the side; the baptismal fount is surrounded by turned wood, and the choral section has a 20th Century organ.
  • Prof. Adler seems to think that the doctrine of evolution explains only the physical descent of man; for the genesis of the spiritual man, he looks for some supernatural "fount" in the skies.
  • The two were used interchangeably as early as the 1920s, although some whiskered English traditionalists will still insist on "fount" in an elitist way, in the hope that it will stretch their authenticity all the way back to Caxton, the great British printer of Chaucer.

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