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noun

Founder n. One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

Founder n. One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

Founder's dust. Same as Facing, 4.

Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

Founder n. (Far.)

(a)

A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.

(b)

An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest founder.

verb

Founder v. t. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Founder v. i. (past & past part. foundered; pres. part. foundering)

(Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. "For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep."

To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder."

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Etymology of 'Founder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Founder" Quotes from Famous Books

... William and Samuel Tuke respecting the Institution, but have not succeeded in tracing the letter from S. Tuke to William Eddy, to which you refer. As you are probably aware, S. Tuke was the grandson of William Tuke, the founder, and when he published the History of the Retreat in 1812 he was but twenty-eight years of age. This book had a far-reaching influence on the treatment of the insane, and it is remarkable that a man untrained in medicine and without university education should ...

— A Psychiatric Milestone - Bloomingdale Hospital Centenary, 1821-1921 • Various

... graduates by preferment, at first named by the founder; and after the first settlement to be chosen out of the first or second colleges; with apartments in the college, ...

— An Essay Upon Projects • Daniel Defoe

... that the god Mars was supposed to be the father of Romulus, the reputed founder of Rome. Romulus displayed many characteristics of the planet. The mythos is no doubt a parallel to that of Aeneas. Rome was founded when the Sun in his orbit had entered the sign Aries, and Mars was the god most honored by the Romans. In time, with the degeneration of human races and their ...

— The Light of Egypt, Volume II • Henry O. Wagner/Belle M. Wagner/Thomas H. Burgoyne

... have been cast on the historical reality of Jesus are, in my judgement, unworthy of serious attention.... To dissolve the founder of Christianity into a myth, as some would do, is hardly less absurd than it would be to do the same ...

— Secret Societies And Subversive Movements • Nesta H. Webster

... E. by N. distant six leagues; haul'd the main-sail down, and went under a fore-sail. I never in my life, in any part of the world, have seen such a sea as runs here, we expected every wave to swallow us, and the boat to founder. This shore is full of small islands, rocks, and breakers, so that we can't haul further to the southward, for fear of endangering the boat, we are obliged to keep her right before the sea. At five broach'd to, at which we all believ'd she ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 17 • Robert Kerr

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