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To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. "Whereof to found their engines." Milton.

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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

Having no foundation.

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

Same as Foundry.

The art of smelting and casting metals.

A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.

A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.

The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.

To mingle and blend, so that different elements can not be distinguished; to confuse.

Confused; perplexed.

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

The state of being confounded.

One who confounds.

To strike dumb; to confuse with astonishment. [Written also dumbfound.] Spectator.

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