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–noun

1.	a receptacle, usually of stone, as in a baptistery or church, containing the water used in baptism.

2.	a receptacle for holy water; stoup.

3.	a productive source: The book is a font of useful tips for travelers.

4.	the reservoir for oil in a lamp.

5.	Archaic. a fountain.

[Origin: bef. 1000; ME; OE font, fant < L font- (s. of fōns) baptismal font, spring, fountain

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–noun Printing.

a complete assortment of type of one style and size.

Also, British, fount.

[Origin: 1570–80; < MF fonte < VL *funditus a pouring, molding, casting, verbal n. from L fundere to pour. See found³

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n.

A basin for holding baptismal water in a church.
A receptacle for holy water; a stoup.
The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp.
An abundant source; a fount: She was a font of wisdom and good sense.

[Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin fōns, font-, from Latin, fountain.]

font'al (fŏn'tl) adj.

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n. Printing
A complete set of type of one size and face.

[French fonte, casting, from Old French (from Vulgar Latin *fundita, from Late Latin, feminine of *funditus, past participle of Latin fundere, to pour forth; see fondant) or from Old French fondre, to melt (from Latin fundere).]

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font (1)

"basin," O.E. font, from L. fons (gen. fontis) "fountain" (see fountain), especially in M.L. fons baptismalis "baptismal font."

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font (2)

"typeface," 1683, from M.Fr. fonte, fem. pp. of fondre "melt" (see found (2)). So called because all the letters were cast at the same time.

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font
noun
1.	a specific size and style of type within a type family
2.	bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font]

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font text
A set of glyphs (images) representing the characters from some particular character set in a particular size and typeface. The image of each character may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an outline font).
There are several different computer representations for fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType. Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and print them.
[Other types of font?]
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Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a 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.

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