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head·spring

 (hĕd′sprĭng′)
n.
A fountainhead; a source.
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headspring

(ˈhɛdˌsprɪŋ)
n
1. (Physical Geography) a spring that is the source of a stream
2. (Gymnastics) a spring using the head as a lever from a position lying on the ground
3. rare a source
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head•spring

(ˈhɛdˌsprɪŋ)

n.
the fountainhead; source.
[1350–1400]
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Noun1.headspring - the source of water from which a stream arises; "they tracked him back toward the head of the stream"
fountainhead, head
origin, source, root, rootage, beginning - the place where something begins, where it springs into being; "the Italian beginning of the Renaissance"; "Jupiter was the origin of the radiation"; "Pittsburgh is the source of the Ohio River"; "communism's Russian root"
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