FONT

n.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A complete assortment of printing type of one size, including a due proportion of all the letters in the alphabet, large and small, points, accents, and whatever else is necessary for printing with that variety of types; a fount.

2.
n.

A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.

3.
n.

A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. Shak.


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