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Extremely; odiously; detestably. [Colloq.] "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.

The state of being confounded.

One who confounds.

The pole flounder.

To injure one's good name; to slander. [Obs.]

To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [R.] Chapman.

To dumfound; to confound. [Written also dumbfounder.]

e lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [West Indies] The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards.

Thick-headed; stupid.

A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl.

See Dunderhead.

One who expounds or explains; an interpreter.

se in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. -- Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. [R.] Burke.

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

Same as Foundry.

Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill.

p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.