■ noun
1》 an ornamental structure in a pool or lake from which one or more jets of water are pumped into the air.
2》 literary or S. African a natural spring of water.
3》 a source of something desirable.
4》 Heraldry a circle with wavy horizontal stripes of blue and white.
■ verb spurt or cascade like a ~.
Origin
ME: from OFr. fontaine , from late L. fontana , feminine of L. fontanus , from fons , font- 'a spring'.