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Fountain of Youth   /fˈaʊntən əv juθ/   Listen
noun
Fountain  n.  
1.
A spring of water issuing from the earth.
2.
An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other useful purposes, or for ornament.
3.
A reservoir or chamber to contain a liquid which can be conducted or drawn off as needed for use; as, the ink fountain in a printing press, etc.
4.
The source from which anything proceeds, or from which anything is supplied continuously; origin; source. "Judea, the fountain of the gospel." "Author of all being, Fountain of light, thyself invisible."
Air fountain. See under Air.
Fountain heead, primary source; original; first principle.
Fountain inkstand, an inkstand having a continual supply of ink, as from elevated reservoir.
Fountain lamp, a lamp fed with oil from an elevated reservoir.
Fountain pen, a pen with a reservoir in the handle which furnishes a supply of ink.
Fountain pump.
(a)
A structure for a fountain, having the form of a pump.
(b)
A portable garden pump which throws a jet, for watering plants, etc.
Fountain shell (Zool.), the large West Indian conch shell (Strombus gigas).
Fountain of youth, a mythical fountain whose waters were fabled to have the property of renewing youth.






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"Fountain of youth" Quotes from Famous Books



... anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth. As a water-doctor, too, his Sagacity was inconceivable. A hundred years ago, he told to a fraction the amount of the national debt, from a single glance at the specimen sent him by JOHN BULL; and more, for five-and-twenty years predicted who would be the incoming Lord Mayor of ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various

... belief in the existence of the Fountain of Youth belongs to many countries and to all times. Not to mention other instances, Herodotus, in his third book, (23,) tells of a fountain of the kind which was possessed by "the long-lived Ethiopians," and which caused the bather's flesh to become sleek and glossy, and sent forth ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IX., March, 1862., No. LIII. - A Magazine Of Literature, Art, And Politics, • Various

... home. She loved all who were in it. But there was no one of her own age at Cairn Ferris, and here at Glenanmays she could dip deep in the fountain of youth. Of the four girls, Faith and Elspeth were her seniors, and she looked up to them, sitting at their feet and keeping her secrets as carefully from them as she would have done from her ...
— Patsy • S. R. Crockett

... cures—of his balsams, his anodynes, his elixirs; in the benevolence of his soul he would, to accommodate the pockets of the poor, sell a pennyworth of the philosopher's stone; and, as a further illustration of his sympathy for suffering man or woman, give, even for a kreutzer, a mouthful of the Fountain of Youth. As a water-doctor, too, his Sagacity was inconceivable. A hundred years ago, he told to a fraction the amount of the national debt, from a single glance at the specimen sent him by JOHN BULL; and more, for five-and-twenty years predicted who would be the ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, November 6, 1841, • Various

... Seasons. Furio Piccirilli, Sculptor The Pacific-Detail from the Fountain of Energy. A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor The Alaskan-Detail from Nations of the West. Frederick C. R. Roth, Sculptor The Feast of Sacrifice. Albert Jaegers, Sculptor Youth - From the Fountain of Youth. Edith Woodman Burroughs, Sculptor Truth - Detail from the Fountain of the Rising Sun. Adolph A. Weinman, Sculptor The Star. A. Stirling Calder, Sculptor The Triton - Detail of the Fountains of the Rising and the Setting Sun. Adolph ...
— The Art of the Exposition • Eugen Neuhaus



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