| font | (n) a specific size and style of type within a type family, Syn. case, fount, typeface, face | | fontanelle | (n) any membranous gap between the bones of the cranium in an infant or fetus, Syn. fontanel, soft spot | | fontanne | (n) United States actress (born in England) who married Alfred Lunt and performed with him in many plays (1887-1983), Syn. Lynn Fontanne | | font cartridge | (n) any font that is contained in a cartridge that can be plugged into a computer printer, Syn. cartridge font | | fontenoy | (n) a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland, Syn. Battle of Fontenoy | | fonteyn | (n) English dancer who danced with Rudolf Nureyev (born in 1919), Syn. Dame Margot Fonteyn |
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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. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Font | n. [ 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. [ 1913 Webster ] Bathing forever in the font of bliss. Young. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing. [ 1913 Webster ] That name was given me at the font. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fontal | a. Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fontanel | n. [ F. fontanelle, prop., a little fountain, fr. fontaine fountain. See Fountain. ] 1. (Med.) An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.[ Obs. ] Wiseman. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Anat.) One of the membranous intervals between the incompleted angles of the parietal and neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull; -- so called because it exhibits a rhythmical pulsation. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fontanelle | ‖n. [ F. ] (Anat.) Same as Fontanel, 2. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Fontange | ‖n. [ F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de Fontanges, about 1679. ] A kind of tall headdress formerly worn. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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