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Definition of Fount

1. Noun. A specific size and style of type within a type family.

2. Noun. A plumbing fixture that provides a flow of water.

Definition of Fount

1. n. A font.

2. n. A fountain.

Definition of Fount

1. a fountain [n -S]

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Fount

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Literary usage of Fount

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1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"Of Coptic the press of the Propaganda possessed a fount, and a specimen was ... The only Slavonic fount in England was that given by Dr Fell to Oxford, ..."

2. The Baptist Missionary Magazine by Executive Committee, Baptist General Convention, American Baptist Missionary Union, Board of Managers (1841)
"The first fount ever prepared for printing in Burmese was executed, ... This fount consisted of the radical letters, and of symbols ; these symbols, ..."

3. A Dictionary of Science, Literature, & Art: Comprising the Definitions and by William Thomas Brande, George William Cox (1867)
"tained by a body of water in one veas«! to fount or Font (Fr. fonds). The quantity ' that in another by means of the elasticity of of types of any ..."

4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"The type was a new fount, and the press work is creditable, but the punctuation and division of the letters are deplorable, and the misprints are ..."

5. An Institute of the Law of Scotland: In Four Books : in the Order of Sir by John Erskine, George Mackenzie, James Ivory (1828)
"... stand off without sufficient grounds, the child is entitled to the subject provided, though she should have counteracted the condition ; fount. July 6. ..."

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