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- Noun. A receptacle in a church for holy water - especially one used in baptism.
- Noun. A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
- Noun. (figuratively) spring, source, fountain.
- Noun. (typography) A set of glyphs of unified design, belonging to one typeface (e.g., Helvetica), style (e.g., italic), and weight (e.g., bold). Usually representing the letters of an alphabet and its supplementary characters.
- Noun. (computing) A computer file containing the code used to draw and compose the glyphs of one or more typographic fonts on a computer display or printer. A font file.
- Noun. (figuratively) A source, wellspring, fount.
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