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  1. noun A basin for holding baptismal water in a church.
  2. noun A receptacle for holy water; a stoup.
  3. noun The oil reservoir in an oil-burning lamp.
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  • Each character in the font is assigned a hex number using the Unicode protocol. —  Discussions: Message List - root
  • The only bit of flash is in the prismatic foil inlayed into in the title font, which is actually quite subdued when compared to some other sets. —  Branded in the 80s!
  • The bold yellow subtitle font is a bit garish, but the transfer image is excellent - soft palette colors, crisp detail and very clean. —  GreenCine Daily
  • I like my layout, but I seriously think the font is a bit too small. —  Kottu
  • If a font is at least as readable as either of these, then you're on the right track. —  Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz
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  1. Middle English, from Old English, from Late Latin fōns, font-, from Latin, fountain.
  2. French fonte, casting, from Old French (from Vulgar Latin *fundita, from Late Latin, feminine of *funditus, past participle of Latin fundere, to pour forth; see fondant) or from Old French fondre, to melt (from Latin fundere).

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  1. from Middle English font, rarely fant (often funt, see below) (often in equivalent comp. fontston: see fontstone). from Anglo-Saxon fant (once in comp. font), a font, = OFries. font, funt = Dutch vont = Middle Low German funte, vunte = Icelandic fontr = Swedish funt, in comp. dop-funt = Danish font, in comp. döbefont, a font, from Middle Latin fon(t-)s, a baptismal font, a particular use of Latin fon(t-)s, a fountain, spring. From the Middle English funt, a font, parallel to font, comes English fount, now used chiefly in the orig. L. sense ‘a spring,’ which is in both cases later in English use than the baptismal sense, and in font is to be referred directly to the L.: see fount.
  2. In sense 2 also fount; from French fonte, a casting, a founding, a cast, a cast of type, a font, from fondre, melt, cast, found: see found.
 

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