[f. FONT sb.1 + -LET.] a. A little fountain. b. A little font (for baptism).
1831. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Newspapers 35 Y. Ago. Not more refreshing to the thirsty curiosity of the traveller is the tracing of some mighty waters up to their shallow fontlet, than it is to a pleased and candid reader to go back to the inexperienced essays, the first callow flights in authorship, of some established name in literature; from the Gnat which preluded to the Æneid, to the Duck which Samuel Johnson trod on.
1894. T. I. Ball, Dir. Elem. Ritual, VI. 52. In privately baptizing, the officiant should pour water on the child out of some vessel, and should not sprinkle it out of the toy called a ‘fontlet.’
