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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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... obligations along these lines and is seeking to render the fullest social service. Emile de Laveleye, the Belgian economist, says, "If Christianity were taught and understood conformably to the spirit of its founder, the existing social organism could ...

— Home Missions In Action • Edith H. Allen

... lies Rollo, the first duke, the founder and father of Normandy, of which he was at first the terror and the scourge, but afterwards the restorer. Baptised in 912 by Francon, archbishop of Rouen, and died in 917[5]. His remains had formerly ...

— Rouen, It's History and Monuments - A Guide to Strangers • Theodore Licquet

... increased by the carelessness of the Americans, who, during the Federal war, used to load their cannon cigar in mouth. But Barbicane had set his heart on succeeding, and did not mean to founder in port; he therefore chose his best workmen, made them work under his superintendence, and by dint of prudence and precautions he managed to put all the chances of success ...

— The Moon-Voyage • Jules Verne

... same way with Callimachus. If one may judge from the few fragments extant, chiefly in Stobaeus, his poetry was simpler and more dignified than that of the Alexandrian school, of which he may be called the founder. He was also one of the earliest commentators on Homer, the celebrated Zenodotus being ...

— Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology • J. W. Mackail

... height to which you aspire? To dominate men of mind by the power of capital and superiority of intellect? Do you think that you will always have skill enough to keep afloat between the two capes, which have seen the life of elegance so often founder between the cheap restaurant and the ...

— Mercadet - A Comedy In Three Acts • Honore De Balzac

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