Word Meanings - SPRINGHEAD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fountain or source.

FOUNTAINLESS
Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton.
FOUNTAIN
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
SOURCE
OF. sors, p.p. of OF. sordre, surdre, sourdre, to spring forth or up, F. sourdre, fr. L. surgere to lift or raise up, to spring up. See 1. The act of rising; a rise; an ascent. Therefore right as an hawk upon a sours Up springeth into the air,
RESOURCE
Pecuniary means; funds; money, or any property that can be converted into supplies; available means or capabilities of any kind. Scotland by no means escaped the fate ordained for every country which is connected, but not incorporated, with another
RESOURCEFUL
Full of resources.
RESOURCELESS
Destitute of resources. Burke. -- Re*source"less*ness, n. R. Browning.