Founder

7 definitions found

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

  Founder \Found"er\, 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 ffounder}. --James White.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Founder \Found"er\, n. [Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L.
     fundator.]
     One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a
     foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one
     who endows.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Founder \Found"er\, n. [From {Found} to cast.]
     One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a
     caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
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     {Fonder's dust}. Same as {Facing}, 4.
  
     {Founder's sand}, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of
        molding.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Founder \Found"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Foundered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Foundering}.] [OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F.
     s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See {Found} to
     establish.]
     1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
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     2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
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              For which his horse fear['e] gan to turn,
              And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. --Chaucer.
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     3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Founder \Found"er\, v. t.
     To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or
     limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  founder
       n 1: inflammation of the laminated tissue that attaches the hoof
            to the foot of a horse [syn: {laminitis}]
       2: a person who founds or establishes some institution; "George
          Washington is the father of his country" [syn: {beginner},
           {founding father}, {father}]
       3: a worker who makes metal castings
       v 1: fail utterly; collapse; "The project foundered" [syn: {fall
            through}, {fall flat}, {flop}]
       2: sink below the surface
       3: break down, literally or metaphorically; "The wall
          collapsed"; "The business collapsed"; "The dam broke";
          "The roof collapsed"; "The wall gave in"; "The roof
          finally gave under the weight of the ice" [syn: {collapse},
           {fall in}, {cave in}, {give}, {give way}, {break}]
       4: stumble and nearly fall; "the horses foundered"

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

  132 Moby Thesaurus words for "founder":
     abort, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author,
     be clobbered, be destroyed, be felled, be lost, be poleaxed,
     be staggered, be stricken, begetter, beginner, break down, builder,
     capsize, cave, cave in, collapse, come to grief, come to naught,
     come to nothing, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creator,
     decline, designer, deviser, die, discoverer, droop, drown,
     effector, engenderer, engineer, establisher, executor, executrix,
     fail, fall, fall in, fall through, falter, father, flop, flop down,
     flump, flump down, framer, generator, give way, go down,
     go downhill, go lame, go under, grower, have a mishap, inaugurator,
     industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer,
     inventor, journeyman, keel, keel over, lapse, lower, lurch, maker,
     manufacturer, master, master craftsman, miscarry, mother,
     organizer, originator, overset, overturn, past master, patriarch,
     pitchpole, planner, plop, plop down, plump, precursor, prime mover,
     producer, progenitor, raiser, realizer, run aground, sag, scuttle,
     set, settle, settle down, shaper, sink, sink down, sink like lead,
     sire, slip, slouch, slump, slump down, smith, somersault, stagger,
     stumble, submerge, submerse, subside, suffer a misfortune, swag,
     sway, topple, topple down, topple over, totter, trip, turn over,
     turn turtle, upset, upset the boat, wright