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A natural source of water; a spring.
- A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene.
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An artificial, usually ornamental, water feature (usually in a garden or public place) consisting of one or more streams of water originating from a statue or other structure.
- His house is right beside that fountain on Street 15.
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The structure from which an artificial fountain can issue.
- As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
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A reservoir from which liquid can be drawn.
- They heard her rouse the sleeping servant, and with her enter the kitchen; then the noise of a fire being lighted and the fountain being filled came to the watchers.
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A source or origin of a flow (e.g., of favors or knowledge).figuratively
- Nothing will pleaſe ſome Men, but Books ſtuff’d with Antiquity, groaning under the weight of Learned Quotations drawn from the Fountains: And what is all this but Pilfering.
- My lighter moods are like to these, That out of words a comfort win; But there are other griefs within, And tears that at their fountain freeze; […]
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A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.
- Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966.
- Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first. Crest, None. Motto, Able and Ready. The blue of the shield represents Infantry. The fountains are emblematic of Arizona,[…]
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A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.
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A soda fountain.US
- He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally.
- A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite.
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A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.US
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A ground-based firework that projects sparks similar to a water fountain.
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To flow or gush as if from a fountain.intransitive
- Lava fountained from the volcano.