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fount 1 Noun 1. Poetic a spring or fountain 2. a source or supply: a fount of knowledge [from fountain] fount 2 Noun Printing chiefly Brit a complete set of type of one style and size [Old French fonte a founding, casting] Fount a complete assortment of type of the same size and style; a spring or source. Also called font. See also fountain. Examples: fount of fire, 1833; of inspiration, 1842; of italics, 1862; of life, 1667; of new heresies, 1874; of type, 1878.
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I can - Its fount is holier - more divine - I would not call thee fool, old man, But such is not a gift of thine. "I must have lived fully three years in that secluded school-house hearth," said he, "drinking thirstily of the ever-flowing fount of limpid knowledge before me. The third draught that I craved from the fount of knowledge was enlightenment concerning the character known as A Man About Town. |
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