From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
font
n 1: a specific size and style of type within a type family [syn:
fount, typeface, face]
2: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font,
baptistry, baptistery]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Font \Font\, n. [F. fonte, fr. fondre to melt or cast. See
Found to cast, and cf. Fount a font.] (Print.)
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.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Font \Font\, n. [AS. font, fant, fr. L. fons, fontis, spring,
fountain; cf. OF. font, funt, F. fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl.
See Fount.]
1. A fountain; a spring; a source.
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Bathing forever in the font of bliss. --Young.
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2. A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for
baptizing.
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That name was given me at the font. --Shak.
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 Sep 2003) [foldoc]:
font
<text> A set of glyphs (images) representing the
characters from some particular character set in a
particular size and typeface. The image of each character
may be encoded either as a bitmap (in a bitmap font) or by
a higher-level description in terms of lines and areas (an
outline font).
There are several different computer representations for
fonts, the most widely known are Adobe Systems, Inc.'s
PostScript font definitions and Apple's TrueType.
Window systems can display different fonts on the screen and
print them.
[Other types of font?]
(2001-04-27)