n. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font. ]font> (Print.) 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. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
n. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount. ]font>
Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
That name was given me at the font. Shak. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
a. Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ R. ]font> <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
n. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See Fountain. ]font>
☞ In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
‖n. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ F. ]font> (Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>
‖n. <font class='text-text-gray-light dark:text-dark-text-gray-light'>[ F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679. ]font> A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>