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fountain(1) (iou) and licentious (oh)


fountain(1) (iou)



fountain noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French fontaine from late Latin fontana use as noun (sc. aqua water) of fontanus adjective of fons, font- a spring.]
A natural spring; the source of a river, stream, etc. Now chiefly poet. & arch. exc. S. Afr. ME.
H. M. Brackenridge The greatest objection to this country is the want of fountains and running streams.
b. fig. A principal origin or source. LME.
W. Blackstone The French law, which is derived from the same feodal fountain.
A jet or number of jets of water made to spout artificially; a structure built for such a jet or jets to rise and fall in. Also = drinking fountain s.v. DRINKING verbal noun. E16.
b. = SODA fountain. M19.
Heraldry. A roundel barry wavy argent and azure, representing water. E17.
A small reservoir for holding liquid, esp. oil in a lamp or ink in a pen or printing-press. E18.
Comb.: fountain-head the headwaters or source of a stream etc.; fig. an original source, esp. of information; fountain-pen: in which the nib is constantly replenished with ink from a reservoir inside the pen.
fountained adjective supplied with fountains or springs E19.
fountaineer noun (now rare) a person who operates or has charge of a fountain E17.
fountainless adjective devoid of springs or fountains L17.
fountainous adjective of the Nature of a source; full of springs: M17.

licentious (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: Latin; Origin: licentiosus, from licentia; LICENSE1]
behaving in a sexually immoral or uncontrolled way
-- licentiously adv
-- licentiousness n [U]