fount

Multiple Entries:
  fount    font  

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
fount1

▶noun

• 1 a source of something desirable.

• 2 literary a spring or fountain.

– origin C16: back-form. from fountain, on the pattern of the pair mountain, mount.

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fount2

▶noun Brit. variant spelling of font2.

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font1

▶noun

• 1 a receptacle in a church for the water used in baptism.

• 2 a reservoir for oil in an oil lamp.

– derivatives
fontal adjective.

– origin OE: from L. fons, font- ‘spring, fountain’.

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font2 (Brit. also fount)

▶noun Printing a set of type of a particular face and size.

– origin C16 (denoting the action or process of casting or founding): from Fr. fonte, from fondre ‘to melt’.