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FOUNT'AIN, n. L. fons.

1. A spring, or source of water properly, a spring or issuing of water from the earth. This word accords in sense with well, in our mother tongue but we now distinguish the, applying fountain to a natural spring of water, and well to an artificial pit of water, issuing from the interior of the earth.
2. A small basin of springing water.
3. A jet a spouting of water an artificial spring.
4. The head or source of a river.
5. Original first principle or cause the source of any thing.

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.

Fount of types. See Font.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Fountain'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​f/fountain.html.
 
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