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Founder   /fˈaʊndər/   Listen
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)  
1.
(Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
2.
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."
3.
To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder."






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"Founder" Quotes from Famous Books



... Colebrooke's essays on Hindu philosophy he thus describes four of the recognized systems: "The two M[i]m[a]ms[a]s... are emphatically orthodox. The prior one, p[u]rva[56] which has J[a]imini for its founder, teaches the art of reasoning, with the express view of aiding the interpretation of the Vedas. The latter, uttara[57] commonly called Ved[a]nta, and attributed to Vy[a]sa (or B[a]dar[a]yana), deduces from the text ...
— The Religions of India - Handbooks On The History Of Religions, Volume 1, Edited By Morris Jastrow • Edward Washburn Hopkins

... which they elaborate plays a special role in the formation of blood or of chyle." In other words, they were dismissed as curious nonentities, of no real significance to the running of the body. Laennec, the French founder of the Art of Diagnosis in Medicine, once said that nothing about a science is more interesting than the progress of that science itself. He might have added that nothing either was more interesting than the contradictions ...
— The Glands Regulating Personality • Louis Berman, M.D.

... much improved twenty or thirty years later when Gibbon went up, but perhaps it had improved a little. He does not mention lawsuits as a favourite pastime of the Fellows. "The Fellows or monks of my time," he says, "were decent, easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder: their days were filled by a series of uniform employments—the chapel, the hall, the coffee-house, and the common room—till they retired weary and well satisfied to a long slumber. From the toil of reading, writing, or thinking ...
— Gibbon • James Cotter Morison

... than the valour of the troops. The Prussian is a small, but singularly neat obelisk, and bears this inscription, "A grateful king and country honour the heroes who fell." There is a third in progress, of which the Emperor of Russia is the founder; but it is not yet completed. It ought to be the most magnificent of the whole; for assuredly the success of the day was owing more to the stubborn hardihood of the Russian Guards, than to any efforts ...
— Germany, Bohemia, and Hungary, Visited in 1837. Vol. II • G. R. Gleig

... 163. Zoroaster. The founder of the Persian religion. Reference is here made to his observations of the heavenly bodies while ...
— Browning's Shorter Poems • Robert Browning


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