Look up: founder

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   Founder
   Since the cause of the founder is apparently unknown, it would appear impossible to prognosticate.
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   founder
   [n] - a worker who makes metal castings 2. [n] - a person who founds or establishes some institution 3. [v] - sink below the surface 4. [v] - stumble and nearly fall
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   founder
   A ship is said to founder when she sinks at sea,more or less on an even keel,through the flooding of the hull,e.g.as a result of heavy weather damage,striking a rock etc. Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   Founder
   Found'er noun [ Confer Old French fondeor , French fondateur , Latin fundator .] One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
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   Founder
   Found'er noun [ From Found to cast.] 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.
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   Founder
   Found'er intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Foundered ; present participle & verbal noun Foundering .] [ Old French fondrer to fall in, confer French s'effondrer , from fond bottom, Latin fundus . See Found to establish.] 1. (Nautical) To become filled with water, and si ...
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   Founder
   Found'er transitive verb To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
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   Founder
   Found'er noun (Far.) (a) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (b) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder . See Chest ffounder . James White.
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   founder
   <veterinary> A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. ... An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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    Founder
    • (v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. • (n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. • (v. i.) To fail; to miscarry. • (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. • (v. t.) To cause inter...
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    founder
    founder, foundered 1. A ship filling with water and sinking. 2. To become submerged; to sink. 3. It also has an established pleonastic sense as part of the idiomatic 'founder and sink'. Confusing Words: Units, Groups A to Z.
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    founder
    A person who contributes to the initial genetic structure of a population and is liable to contribute to a large proportion of the genes in the descendants from it.
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    founder
    founder: see laminitis.
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