FOUND'ER, n
1. One that founds, establishes and erects one that lays a foundation as the founder of a temple or city.
2. One who begins an author one from whom any thing originates as the founder of a sect of philosophers the founder of a family or race.
3. One who endows one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution as the founder of a college or hospital.
4. A caster one who casts metals in various forms as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, &c.
FOUND'ER,
1. In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship.
2. To fail to miscarry.
3. To trip to fell.
FOUND'ER, To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.