fount" (fount)

[Another form of font2, IMG:content-1763.png:[blocks in formation] Where a green gra y turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrown, Fast by a brook, or fountain's murmuring wave. Beattie, The Minstrel, ii. the air from the latter up into and increases the pre ure in the higher reservoir, displacing the water therein and forcing it through the detachable tube in the form of a jet. This ejected water falls into the basin and thence pa es to the lower reservoir, and thus the action continues till nearly all the water in the higher reservoir has been discharged through the jet. - Steam-fountain, a fountain in which the liquid is raised by the pre ure of steam upon the surface in a reservoir. =Syn. 1 and 2. Spring, etc. See well.