headspring

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headspring - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Headspring \Head"spring`\ (h[e^]d"spr[i^]ng`), n.
     Fountain; source.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The headspring of our belief.            --Stapleton.
     [1913 Webster]

headspring - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  headspring
      n 1: the source of water from which a stream arises; "they
           tracked him back toward the head of the stream" [syn:
           fountainhead, headspring, head]