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<hw>Fon"ly</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>adv.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Fon</er>.]</ety> <def>Foolishly; fondly.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Spenser.</i>

<h1>Fonne</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Fon"ne</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A fon.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Font</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Font</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fonte</ets>, fr. <ets>fondre</ets> to melt or cast. See <er>Found</er> to cast, and cf. <er>Fount</er> a font.]</ety> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Font</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Font</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>font</ets>, <ets>fant</ets>, fr. L. <ets>fons</ets>, <ets>fontis</ets>, spring, fountain; cf. OF. <ets>font</ets>, <ets>funt</ets>, F. <ets>fonts</ets>, <ets>fonts baptismaux</ets>, pl. See <er>Fount</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A fountain; a spring; a source.</def>

<blockquote> Bathing forever in the <b>font</b> of bliss. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.</def>

<blockquote> That name was given me at the <b>font</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fontal</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Font"al</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original; primitive.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote> From the <b>fontal</b> light of ideas only can a man draw intellectual power. <i>Coleridge.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fontanel</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Fon"ta*nel`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>fontanelle</ets>, prop., a little fountain, fr. <ets>fontaine</ets> fountain. See <er>Fountain</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>An issue or artificial ulcer for the discharge of humors from the body.</def><mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Wiseman.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>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.</def>

<note>&hand; In the human fetus there are six fontanels, of which the anterior, or bregmatic, situated at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures, is much the largest, and remains open a considerable time after birth.</note>

<h1>Fontanelle</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Fon`ta`nelle"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Same as <er>Fontanel</er>, 2.</def>

<h1>Fontange</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Fon`tange"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., from the name of the first wearer, Mlle. de <ets>Fontanges</ets>, about 1679.]</ety> <def>A kind of tall headdress formerly worn.</def>

<i>Addison.</i>

<h1>Food</h1> <Xpage=579>

<hw>Food</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>fode</ets>, AS. <ets>f\'d3da</ets>; akin to Icel. <ets>f\'91\'eba</ets>, <ets>f\'91\'ebi</ets>, Sw. <ets>f\'94da</ets>, Dan. & LG. <ets>f\'94de</ets>, OHG. <ets>fatunga</ets>, Gr. <grk>patei^sthai</grk> to eat, and perh. to Skr. <ets>p\'be</ets> to protect, L. <ets>pascere</ets> to feed, pasture, <ets>pabulum</ets> food, E. <ets>pasture</ets>. \'fb75. Cf. <er>Feed</er>, <er>Fodder</er> food, <er>Foster</er> to cherish.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<note>&hand; In a physiological sense, true aliment is to be distinguished as that portion of the food which is capable of being digested and absorbed into the blood, thus furnishing nourishment, in distinction from the indigestible matter which passes out through the alimentary canal as f\'91ces.</note>