Found

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Found \Found\,
     imp. & p. p. of {Find}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found, pour.]
     To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
     cast. "Whereof to found their engines." --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Found \Found\, n.
     A thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. See
     1st {Bottom}, and cf. {Founder}, v. i., {Fund}.]
     1. To lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something
        solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis,
        literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
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              I had else been perfect,
              Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak.
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              A man that all his time
              Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak.
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              It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --Matt.
                                                    vii. 25.
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     2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or
        building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to
        begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to
        found a family.
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              There they shall found
              Their government, and their great senate choose.
                                                    --Milton.
  
     Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See
          {Predicate}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Find \Find\ (f[imac]nd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found} (found); p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS.
     & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw. finna,
     Goth. fin[thorn]an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr.
     pi`ptein to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.]
     1. To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the
        first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or
        unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
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              Searching the window for a flint, I found
              This paper, thus sealed up.           --Shak.
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              In woods and forests thou art found.  --Cowley.
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     2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to
        experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings;
        to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." --Shak.
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              The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley.
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     3. To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
        (a) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
        (b) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object
            or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
        (c) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to
            find leisure; to find means.
        (d) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
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                  Seek, and ye shall find.          --Matt. vii.
                                                    7.
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                  Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron.
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     4. To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
        for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
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              Wages [pounds]14 and all found.       --London
                                                    Times.
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              Nothing a day and find yourself.      --Dickens.
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     5. To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to
        establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of
        indictment) against an accused person.
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              To find his title with some shows of truth. --Shak.
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     {To find out}, to detect (a thief); to discover (a secret) --
        to solve or unriddle (a parable or enigma); to understand.
        "Canst thou by searching find out God?" --Job. xi. 7. "We
        do hope to find out all your tricks." --Milton.
  
     {To find fault with}, to blame; to censure.
  
     {To find one's self}, to be; to fare; -- often used in
        speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this
        morning?
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  find
       n 1: a productive insight [syn: {discovery}, {breakthrough}]
       2: the act of discovering something [syn: {discovery}, {uncovering}]
       v 1: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea
            in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery
            not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an
            interesting book in the bookstore the other day" [syn: {happen},
             {chance}, {bump}, {encounter}]
       2: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
          "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water";
          "We found traces of lead in the paint" [syn: {detect}, {observe},
           {discover}, {notice}]
       3: come upon after searching; find the location of something
          that was missed or lost; "Did you find your glasses?"; "I
          cannot find my gloves!" [syn: {regain}] [ant: {lose}]
       4: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or
          study; "find the product of two numbers"; "The physicist
          who found the elusive particle won the Nobel Prize" [syn:
          {determine}, {find out}, {ascertain}]
       5: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or
          indefinite grounds; "I feel that he doesn't like me"; "I
          find him to be obnoxious"; "I found the movie rather
          entertaining" [syn: {feel}]
       6: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans
          winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in
          this school"; "I want to see results"; "The 1960 saw the
          rebellion of the younger generation against established
          traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: {witness}, {see}]
       7: get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "I found
          this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "I got
          hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "The chairman
          got hold of a secretary on Friday night to type the urgent
          letter" [syn: {line up}, {get hold}, {come up}]
       8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "Roentgen discovered
          X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary
          particle" [syn: {discover}]
       9: make a discovery; "She found that he had lied to her"; "The
          story is false, so far as I can discover" [syn: {discover}]
       10: obtain through effort or management; "She found the time and
           energy to take care of her aging parents"; "We found the
           money to send our sons to college"
       11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone
           guilty" [syn: {rule}]
       12: receive a specified treatment (abstract); "These aspects of
           civilization do not find expression or receive an
           interpretation"; "His movie received a good review"; "I
           got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" [syn: {receive},
            {get}, {obtain}, {incur}]
       13: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "I
           found myself in a difficult situation"; "When he woke up,
           he found himself in a hospital room"
       14: get or find back; recover the use of; "She regained control
           of herself"; "She found her voice and replied quickly"
           [syn: {recover}, {retrieve}, {regain}]
       15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "The arrrow found its mark"
       16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and
           situation; "My son went to Berkeley to find himself"
           [syn: {find oneself}]
       [also: {found}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  found
       adj : come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the
             lost-and-found department" [ant: {lost}]
       n : food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked
           for $30 and found"
       v 1: set up or found; "She set up a literacy program" [syn: {establish},
             {set up}, {launch}] [ant: {abolish}]
       2: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
          department" [syn: {establish}, {plant}, {constitute}, {institute}]
       3: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some
          observation" [syn: {establish}, {base}, {ground}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  found
       See {find}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  166 Moby Thesaurus words for "found":
     assemble, author, base, bear, bed, beget, begin, blaze, blister,
     block out, bottom, brand, breed, bring about, bring forth,
     bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, build, build in,
     burn, burn in, burn off, carve, cast, cause, cauterize, char,
     chase, chisel, christen, coal, commence, conceive, confirm,
     constitute, crack, create, cupel, cut, deep-dye, define, develop,
     do, effect, effectuate, efform, embed, engender, engraft, engrave,
     entrench, erect, establish, etch, fashion, father, figure, fix,
     flame, float, forge, form, formalize, frame, generate, gestate,
     give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
     grave, ground, hew, impact, implant, impress, imprint, inaugurate,
     incept, induct, infix, ingrain, initiate, inscribe, insculpture,
     install, institute, introduce, invest, jam, knead, knock out,
     launch, lay out, lay the foundation, lick into shape, lift up,
     lodge, make, materialize, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize,
     originate, oxidate, oxidize, pack, parch, pitch, plant, predicate,
     print, produce, put in, put up, pyrolyze, raise, realize, rear,
     rest, ring in, root, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scorch, sculp,
     sculpt, sculpture, sear, seat, set, set afloat, set agoing, set in,
     set on foot, set up, settle, shape, singe, sire, solder, stamp,
     start, start going, start up, stay, stereotype, support, sustain,
     swinge, tailor, thermoform, torrefy, turn on, usher in, vesicate,
     vest, vulcanize, wedge, weld, work