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

Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive. [R.] From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge.

An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[Obs.] Wiseman.

Same as Fontanel, 2.

A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison.

A part of a church containing a font and used for baptismal services.

of the middle of the 19th century centering in the village of Barbizon near the forest of Fontainebleau. Its members went straight to nature in disregard of academic tradition, treating their subjects faithfully and with poetic feeling for color, light, and atmosphere. It is exemplified, esp. in landscapes, by Corot, R…

lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

The style or cut of a type or font of type.

A font.

been blessed by the priest for sacred purposes. -- Holy-water stoup, the stone stoup or font placed near the entrance of a church, as a receptacle for holy water. -- Holy Week (Eccl.), the week before Easter, in which the passion of our Savior is commemorated. -- Holy writ, the sacred Scriptures. " Word of holy wri…

A fontanel.

to rear defenses or houses; to rear one government on the ruins of another. One reared a font of stone. Tennyson.

sorts (Print.), with some letters or sorts of type deficient or exhausted in the case or font; hence, colloquially, out of order; ill; vexed; disturbed. -- To run upon sorts (Print.), to use or require a greater number of some particular letters, figures, or marks than the regular proportion, as, for example, in maki…

(T. gigas) often weighs four or five hundred pounds, and is sometimes used for baptismal fonts. Called also paw shell, and fountain shell.

A small annual plant (Montia fontana) growing in wet places in southern regions.