(Far.) A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
They who strip not ideas from the marks men use for them, but confound them with words, must have endless dispute. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Let us go down, and there confound their language. Gen. xi. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]
They [ the tinkers ] were generally vagrants and pilferers, and were often confounded with the gypsies. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
The gods confound...
The Athenians both within and out that wall. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
They trusted in thee and were not confounded. Ps. xxii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]
So spake the Son of God, and Satan stood
A while as mute, confounded what to say. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
One man's lust these many lives confounds. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
How couldst thou in a mile confound an hour? Shak.
a.
A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was a most confounded tory. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]
The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. Extremely; odiously; detestably. [ Colloq. ] “Confoundedly sick.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being confounded. [ 1913 Webster ]
Their witty descant of my confoundedness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who confounds. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. tending to contradict (a hypothesis).
n. a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.
v. t. same as dumfound.
adj.
adj. causing astonishment. [ Narrower terms:
v. t.
adj. same as dumbfounded.
v. t. To dumfound; to confound.
adj. same as dumbfounding.
imp. & p. p. of Find. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
n. A thin, single-cut file for combmakers. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t.
I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
It fell not, for it was founded on a rock. Matt. vii. 25. [ 1913 Webster ]
There they shall found
Their government, and their great senate choose. Milton.
n. [ F. fondation, L. fundatio. See Found to establish. ]
Behold, I lay in Zion, for a foundation, a stone . . . a precious corner stone, a sure foundation. Is. xxviii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]
The foundation of a free common wealth. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was entered on the foundation of Westminster. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]
Against the canon laws of our foundation. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
Foundation course.
Foundation muslin,
Foundation school,
To be on a foundation,
n. One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Having no foundation. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. based; -- often used as combining terms;
n. [ Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator. ] One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ From Found to cast. ] One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster;
Fonder's dust.
Founder's sand,
v. i.
For which his horse fearé gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Far.)
a. Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up;
n. (Mining) The first shaft sunk. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
n. The art of smelting and casting metals. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ OE. foundling, fundling; finden to find + -ling; cf. fündling, findling. See Find, v. t., and -ling. ] A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. [ 1913 Webster ]
Foundling hospital,
n. A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.;
Foundry ladle,
v. t. [ L. infundere to pour in. See Infuse. ] To pour in; to infuse. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]
prop. n.
Newfoundland dog (Zool.),
a. [ F. profond, L. profundus; pro before, forward + fundus the bottom. See Found to establish, Bottom lowest part. ]
Of the profound corruption of this class there can be no doubt. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]
What humble gestures! What profound reverence! Duppa. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
God in the fathomless profound
Hath all this choice commanders drowned. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i. To dive deeply; to penetrate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a profound manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
Why sigh you so profoundly? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ Pref. re- + found to cast; cf. F. refondare. Cf. Refund. ]
imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. One who refounds. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + confound. ] To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Pref. un- not + confounded. ] Not confounded. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]
a.