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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'

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... against all the lower faiths inspired by the claim of Christianity to a monopoly of religious truth—a claim nowise set up by its founder—has led to extreme injustice toward the so-called heathen religions. Little effort has been made to distinguish between their good and evil tendencies, or even to understand them. I do not know of a single instance on this continent of a ...

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... (1738-1791), founder of a Scottish religious sect known as the Buchanites, was the daughter of John Simpson, proprietor of an inn near Banff. Having quarrelled with her husband, Robert Buchan, a potter of Greenock, she settled with her children in Glasgow, where she was deeply impressed by a sermon preached ...

— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 - "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" • Various

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