noun
definition
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
synonyms
definition
A receptacle for oil in a lamp.
definition
Spring, source, fountain.
Examples of font in a Sentence
In the centre is an octagonal font bearing date 1294.
It also possesses a remarkable Norman font of lead.
The font in the baptistery near the cathedral is an early example of this.
In Lutheran churches the organ is silent on this day, and altar, font and pulpit are draped in black, as indeed throughout Holy Week.
Prince Andrew sat in another room, faint with fear lest the baby should be drowned in the font, and awaited the termination of the ceremony.
The fine church of St James contains an early font with Norman carving, a rich Norman doorway, a painted reredos, and a beautiful old roodstone in good preservation.
Although there is a basic design format, you can choose your font and background colors.
Both of these elements should be taken into consideration when choosing your font colors.
When selecting a font color, don't guess how it will look.
Don't pick a font color for your text that contrasts with the background in a discordant way.
Because all of their links seem to be in the same font and with the same weight, they all seem equally important, which makes it difficult to find out what services might really be useful or not.
What this means is that Microsoft Word will use individual font tags and definitions for each part of the page, and put in many more properties and definitions than needed.
The tag has three basic qualities of text that it controls.
If not, it will use Helvetica, and if that's not installed either (very unlikely) it will display in whatever sans-serif font is installed.
In effect this rite was a repetition of baptism, the water of the font alone being omitted.
St Mary's contains a Norman font, an ancient brass lectern, buried during the Civil Wars, and some interesting heraldic ornaments which date from the 15th century.
The font within it is Early English.
The church of St Margaret is Perpendicular, and retains a fine font in that style, and several ancient monuments.
A stone chancel screen and a Norman font are also preserved.
This size font puts a further strain on the reader.
The ancient font offsets what appear to be Victorian arcades.
Some characters in the font might extend above the font ascent line.
If you must print bidirectional, you can use the EPSON Scalable Font driver.
The font is stored as a graphic and produces weird effects such as becoming blocky when altered in size.
For a font using 2-byte matrix format, the default_char has byte matrix format, the default_char has byte1 in the most-significant byte and byte2 in the least-significant byte.
There was the lighting of the large Paschal candle, and then at midnight the consecration of the waters of the baptismal font.
Some systems offer little flexibility, forcing you to adopt color combinations, font sizes or layouts that hinder accessibility.
The journal archives are a veritable font of information, and the glossary of terms is excellent; a must for the insatiably curious.
The background colors are somewhat deviant, but the offset of the font color gives it a alomst homey feeling.
If you have the font Times New Roman ISO 8859-2 or Latin-2 available, you can view a version with full diacritics.
We have introduced a number of extended font families unique to Faces - available for instant download.
The Default font face renders the text in the default font specified by the user's browser.
Typical usage would be to allow a user to select a particular font.
Set Text font Allows you to choose a font for the text output window.
There are also some Saxon remains on the site; the relics of an early Saxon church and a baptismal font.
I have omitted them from the formula in the heading above because they didn't come out well in the italic font I used.
All the digits 0 to 9 have the same width in a proportional font.
Visual browsers typically render H1 in a large, bold font.
At the back of the church is the octagonal font surmounted by a memorial canopy given by Flintshire Cricket Club.
Most applications simply use XLoadQueryFont to load a font to load a font and query the font metrics.
Are all program fragments in a fixed-width font such as Courier?
Remember to establish the optimum text size (in points) and select a clear sans serif font, such as Arial.
The font stood under the tower, an octagonal bowl with richly detailed crocketed traceried gables on each face.
Is the text consistent in its use of bold, italics, font face, font size, etc.
Any pixel or point size can be selected to scale the font to a particu- lar size.
It is also the height of the body of lowercase letters in a font, excluding the ascenders and descenders.
E.g. li font color="red " this is a red li font color="red " this is a red list item /font /li Be careful when mixing other tags within your lists.
The ms macros print headings in bold using the same font family and point size as the body text.
Used when mass mailing and in conjunction with our barcode font.
A Linux installation typically contains several independent sets of fonts or font metrics.