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Entry 3 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Font

/fänt/ · IPA /fɑnt/
01 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,…
  1. 1.
    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.(Print.)
02 n. A fountain; a spring; a source.
  1. 1.
    A fountain; a spring; a source.
    “Bathing forever in the font of bliss.” — Young.
  2. 2.
    A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
    “That name was given me at the font.” — Shak.