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view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc.

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Foundation. [Obs.] Chaucer.

ence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones…

arily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. "Fundamentally defective." Burke.

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

One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill.

Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

Destitute of funds.

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.

To pour out. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zoöl.),a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk.

Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped.

A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes.

quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. "The vast profundity obscure." Milton.

To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan.

One who refunds.

The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [R.] Lamb.

To flow in anew. [Obs.] Swift.

To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [Obs.] Barrow.