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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.

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

One who confounds.

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

One who refounds.

Although; albeit. [Obs.] Albe Clarissa were their chiefest founderess. Spenser.

ntrivance to hold the end of a bridge cable, or other similar part; a contrivance used by founders to hold the core of a mold in place.

Pertaining to Antiochus, a contemporary with Cicero, and the founder of a sect of philosophers.

gs of Hungary on account of the extensive propagation of Christianity by St. Stephen, the founder of the royal line. It is now a title of the emperor of Austria in right of the throne of Hungary. -- Apostolic see, a see founded and governed by an apostle; specifically, the Church of Rome; -- so called because, in the…

Lit., gate; -- a title given to the founder of Babism, and taken from that of Bab-ud-Din, assumed by him.

A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.

A poor man, supported in a beadhouse, and required to pray for the soul of its founder; an almsman. Whereby ye shall bind me to be your poor beadsman for ever unto Almighty God. Fuller.

religious teacher of the Buddhists, esp. Gautama Siddartha or Sakya Sinha (or Muni), the founder of Buddhism.

To bilge, as a ship; to founder. And scattered navies bulge on distant shores. Broome.

owment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.

es. Macaulay. Through and beyond these dark complications of the present, the New England founders looked to the great necessities of future times. Palfrey.

, obligation, or crime. Religious houses made compounders For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras.