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spring⋅head

  [spring-hed]
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–noun
1. a spring or fountainhead from which a stream flows.
2. the source of something: the springhead of desire.
Origin:
1545–55; spring + head
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spring·head   (sprĭng'hěd')   
n.  A fountainhead; a source: a society that was the springhead of Western legal thought.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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