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Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A fountain; a spring; a source. Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young.
2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. That name was given me at the font. Shak.