Founder /(?)/

Found·er

Founder

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

Founder

n.
  1. One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.

Phrases & Compounds
Fonder's dust
Same as Facing, 4.
Founder's sand
a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding.

Founder

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Foundered; p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering

  1. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. (Naut.)
  2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
    For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep.
  3. To fail; to miscarry.

Founder

v. t.
  1. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.

Founder

n.
  1. A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (Far.)