fountainhead, headspring, head
(noun) the source of water from which a stream arises; “they tracked him back toward the head of the stream”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
headspring (plural headsprings)
A fountainhead; a source.
(figurative) A basis or foundation.
(gymnastics) A move in which the gymnast places both hands on the mat with the top of the head about 6 inches in front, pushes off with the hands while flipping the legs overhead, and lands on the feet.
A spring that sits at the top of a mechanism, pushing the internal parts inward.
headspring (third-person singular simple present headsprings, present participle headspringing, simple past and past participle headspringed)
(gymnastics) To perform a headspring.
• ring-shaped, springhead
Source: Wiktionary
Head"spring`, n.
Definition: Fountain; source. The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
10 January 2025
(noun) the act of combining one thing at intervals among other things; “the interspersion of illustrations in the text”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
