Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Font

Font , noun

[French fonte, from fondre to melt or cast. See Found to cast, and compare Fount a font.]

(Printing) 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.

Font , noun

[Anglo-Saxon font, fant, from Latin fons, fontis, spring, fountain; compare Old French font, funt, French fonts, fonts baptismaux, pl. See Fount.]

1.
A fountain; a spring; a source.
Bathing forever in the font of bliss. — Young
2.
A basin or stone vessel in which water is contained for baptizing.
That name was given me at the font. — Shakespeare