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A fountain.

er to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.

Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.

Full of fountains. Pope.

To contribute; to bring aid or supplies; to conduce; to minister. A fountain . . . administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place. Spectator.

gas, formerly called fixed air. His sparkling sallies bubbled up as from aërated natural fountains. Carlyle.

Flowing. Their founts aflow with tears. R. Browning.

Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of ageless youth.

A tube through which is water is discharged; an efflux tube; as, the ajutage of a fountain.

Pertaining to Aonia, Boeotia, or to the Muses, who were supposed to dwell there. Aonian fount, the fountain of Aganippe, at the foot of Mount Helicon, not far from Thebes, and sacred to the Muses.

l the instrument reaches water, which, from internal pressure, flows spontaneously like a fountain. They are usually of small diameter and often of great depth.

and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers. Artificial strife Lives in these touches, livelier than life. Shak.

e summer's heat assuage. Addison. To assuage the sorrows of a desolate old man Burke. The fount at which the panting mind assuages Her thirst of knowledge. Byron.

to appear; to dawn. The day begins to break, and night is fied. Shak. And from the turf a fountain broke, and gurgled at our feet. Wordswoorth.

The edge or margin, as of a fountain, or of the water contained in it; the brink; border. The feet of the priest that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water. Josh. iii. 15.

rmerly used in veterinary practice; -- called also horse aloes. -- Caballine spring, the fountain of Hippocrene, on Mount Helicon; - - fabled to have been formed by a stroke from the foot of the winged horse Pegasus.

Also, a roofike covering, supported on pilars over an altar, a statue, a fountain, etc.

Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain of inspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.

Inclosed within a building; as, a fountain or cistern castellated. [Obs.] Johnson.

ge for conveying water or fluid. All the conduits of my blood froze up. Shak. This is the fountain of all those bitter waters, of which, through a hundred different conduits, we have drunk. Burke.