a. poet. [f. FOUNT1 + -FUL.] Full of founts or springs.
c. 1611. Chapman, Iliad, XX. 204. The foot of Ida’s fountful hill.
1611. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., XV. (1626), 315.
| Where yellow Tybris runs | |
| From fountfull Appenines. |
1715–20. Pope, Iliad, XII. 113.
| Antenor’s Sons the fourth Battalion guide, | |
| And great Æneas, born on fount-full Ide. |
1809. Mrs. West, Mother (1810), 144.
| So on the top of fountful Pisgah stood | |
| Moses, the man of God, who faithful led | |
| The wandering tribes. |
