fountain

1. (originally) A natural source of water; a spring.Examples: "A little fountaine became a riuer, and there was light, & the Sunne, and much water: this riuer is Eſther, whō the King married and made Queene."Synonyms: fount, syke, wellspring

2. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure.Examples: "Crest : A boar's head couped gold semy of fountains armed gules. Motto : REMIS VELISQUE. Granted by the College of Arms 1966."; "Argent, seme of fountains on a chief azure a Lorraine cross and an oak leaf of the first. Crest, None. Motto, Able and Ready. The blue of the shield represents Infantry. The fountains are emblematic of Arizona,[…]"

3. (juggling) A juggling pattern typically done with an even number of props where each prop is caught by the same hand that throws it.

4. (US) A soda fountain.Examples: "He takes out a soup bowl, fills it with Pepsi from the fountain, and places it carefully on the counter in front of the boy. “That'll be a quarter,” he says professionally."; "A Sproke was a soft drink Gloria and I had created with Jimbo’s help at the Banana Shack. It was basically fountain Coke mixed with fountain Sprite."US

5. (US) A drink poured from a soda fountain, or the cup it is poured into.US

6. (figurative) Anything that resembles a fountain in operation.Examples: "Travellers over the London & North Western main line in bygone days will need no reminder of the pattering of cinders on the carriage roofs, the fountains of sparks from the chimneys at night and the distance from which the exhaust of approaching locomotives could be heard, due to the fierceness of their blast in such conditions."figuratively