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; to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.

be entitled to a support from the proceeds of an endowment, as a scholar or a fellow of a college.

One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. [Eng.]

A large bedstead with tall posts at the corners to support curtains. [Colloq.]

A vehicle having four wheels. [Colloq.]

A sly, cunning fellow. [Colloq.] We call a crafty and cruel man a fox. Beattie.

nses. South. -- Free and easy, unconventional; unrestrained; regardless of formalities. [Colloq.] "Sal and her free and easy ways." W. Black. -- Free goods, goods admitted into a country free of duty. -- Free labor, the labor of freemen, as distinguished from that of slaves. -- Free port. (Com.) (a) A port where go…

blood freezes in the veins. To freeze up (Fig.), to become formal and cold in demeanor. [Colloq.]

Collectively, the people of France.

ovice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

Unskilled; raw. [Colloq.] "Fresh-water soldiers." Knolles.

Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion. [Colloq.]

To act frivolously; to trifle. Kipling. -- Friv"ol*er (#), Friv"ol*ler, n. [All Colloq.]

The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.

Fruit, collectively; fruit, in general; fruitery. The trees . . . ambrosial fruitage bear. Milton.

Fruit, taken collectively; fruitage. J. Philips.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

A state of excitement; as, to be in a fry. [Colloq.]

To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated. [Colloq.] I am too fuddled to take care to observe your orders. Steele.

A drunkard. [Colloq.] Baxter.