FONTS

Noun

fonts

plural of font

Verb

fonts

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of font

Source: Wiktionary


FONT

Font, n. Etym: [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.)

Definition: 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, n. Etym: [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring, fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]

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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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