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n. <font class='text-text-gray-light'>[ AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount. ]font> 1. A fountain; a spring; a source. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>

Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>

2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. <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'>[ 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'>[ F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See Fountain. ]font> 1. (Med.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.<font color='#AEB5C0'>[ Obs. ]font> Wiseman. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>

2. (Anat.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]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'>[ F. ]font> (Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2. <font color='#AEB5C0'>[ 1913 Webster ]font>