FOUNT'AIN, n. L. fons.
1. A spring, or source of water properly, a spring or issuing of water from the earth. This word accords in sense with well, in our mother tongue but we now distinguish the, applying fountain to a natural spring of water, and well to an artificial pit of water, issuing from the interior of the earth.
2. A small basin of springing water.
3. A jet a spouting of water an artificial spring.
4. The head or source of a river.
5. Original first principle or cause the source of any thing.
Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.
Fount of types. See Font.