Vocabulary : Font to Fool

Font : 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. ;; A fountain; a spring; a source. ;; A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
Fontal : Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.
Fontanel : An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body. ;; 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.
Fontanelle : Same as Fontanel, 2.
Fontange : A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.
Food : What is fed upon; that which goes to support life by being received within, and assimilated by, the organism of an animal or a plant; nutriment; aliment; especially, what is eaten by animals for nourishment. ;; Anything that instructs the intellect, excites the feelings, or molds habits of character; that which nourishes. ;; To supply with food.
Foodful : Full of food; supplying food; fruitful; fertile.
Foodless : Without food; barren.
Foody : Eatable; fruitful.
Fool : A compound of gooseberries scalded and crushed, with cream; -- commonly called gooseberry fool. ;; One destitute of reason, or of the common powers of understanding; an idiot; a natural. ;; A person deficient in intellect; one who acts absurdly, or pursues a course contrary to the dictates of wisdom; one without judgment; a simpleton; a dolt. ;; One who acts contrary to moral and religious wisdom; a wicked person. ;; One who counterfeits folly; a professional jester or buffoon; a retainer formerly kept to make sport, dressed fantastically in motley, with ridiculous accouterments. ;; To play the fool; to trifle; to toy; to spend time in idle sport or mirth. ;; To infatuate; to make foolish. ;; To use as a fool; to deceive in a shameful or mortifying manner; to impose upon; to cheat by inspiring foolish confidence; as, to fool one out of his money.
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