Part 4541

<h1>Foundationless</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Foun*da"tion*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no foundation.</def>

<h1>Founder</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OF. <ets>fondeor</ets>, F. <ets>fondateur</ets>, L. <ets>fundator</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.</def>

<h1>Founder</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Found</er> to cast.]</ety> <def>One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; <as>as, a <ex>founder</ex> of cannon, bells, hardware, or types</as>.</def>

<cs><col>Fonder's dust</col>. <cd>Same as <er>Facing</er>, 4.</cd> -- <col>Founder's sand</col>, <cd>a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.</cd></cs>

<h1>Founder</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Foundered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Foundering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>fondrer</ets> to fall in, cf. F. <ets>s'effondrer</ets>, fr. <ets>fond</ets> bottom, L. <ets>fundus</ets>. See <er>Found</er> to establish.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.</def>

<blockquote>For which his horse fear\'82 gan to turn, And leep aside, and <b>foundrede</b> as he leep. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To fail; to miscarry.</def> "All his tricks <i>founder</i>."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Founder</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.</def>

<h1>Founder</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; <as>as, chest <ex>founder</ex></as>. See <er>Chest ffounder</er>.</def>

<i>James White.</i>

<h1>Founderous</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Foun"der*ous</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; <as>as, a <ex>founderous</ex> road</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Burke.</i>

<h1>Foundershaft</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er*shaft`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The first shaft sunk.</def>

<i>Raymond.</i>

<h1>Foundery</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"er*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Founderies</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[F. <ets>fonderie</ets>, fr. <ets>fondre</ets>. See <er>Found</er> to cast, and cf. <er>Foundry</er>.]</ety> <def>Same as <er>Foundry</er>.</def>

<h1>Founding</h1> <Xpage=590>

<hw>Found"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The art of smelting and casting metals.</def>