Founder

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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

2. An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

1. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.

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. Chaucer.

3. To fail; to miscarry. "All his tricks founder." Shak.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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