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Font \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.
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Font \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.
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Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young.
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2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for
baptizing.
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That name was given me at the font. --Shak.
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font
n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family
[syn: font, fount, typeface, face, case]

2: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry,
baptistery, font]
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font

A set of glyphs (images) representing the
characters from some particular character set in a
particular size and typeface. The image of each character
may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by
a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an
outline font).

There are several different computer representations for
fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s
PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType.
Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and
print them.

[Other types of font?]

(2001-04-27)

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font [fɔnt]
grafischer Zeichensatz; Schrift; Schriftart

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betûfaj
betûkészlet
forrás
keresztelômedence
keresztkút
olajtartály
szenteltvíztartó
öntvény
öntés


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font
fonte battesimale

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1. plaited




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Schrift f
font

Schriftart f; Schrift f
font

grafischer Zeichensatz
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110 Moby Thesaurus words for "font":
affusion, ascender, aspergation, aspersion, back, baptism,
baptismal gown, baptismal regeneration, baptistery, baptizement,
bastard type, beard, belly, bevel, black letter, body, bonanza,
cap, capital, case, chalice, chrismal, chrismatory, christening,
ciborium, cornucopia, counter, cruet, descender, em, en, face,
fat-faced type, feet, flush, fount, fountain, fountainhead, geyser,
gold mine, groove, gush, headspring, headstream, headwater,
holy-water font, immersion, infusion, italic, jet, letter,
ligature, lode, logotype, lower case, mainspring, majuscule, mine,
minuscule, monstrance, nick, ostensorium, pi, pica, point, print,
pyx, quarry, reliquary, resource, riverhead, roman, rush,
sans serif, script, shank, shoulder, small cap, small capital,
source, source of supply, spew, spit, spout, spouter, spray,
spring, springhead, sprinkling, spritz, spurt, spurtle, squirt,
stamp, staple, stem, total immersion, type, type body, type class,
type lice, typecase, typeface, typefounders, typefoundry,
upper case, vein, well, wellhead, wellspring



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