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<A NAME="foundation">
<B>foundation, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a part on which the other parts rest for support; base. <BR> <I>Ex. The foundation of a house is built first.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a basis or groundwork. <BR> <I>Ex. This report has no foundation of fact.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the act or process of founding; establishing. <BR> <I>Ex. The foundation of the United States began in 1776.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the condition of being founded; being established. <DD><B> 5. </B>an institution established and endowed for its maintenance. <BR> <I>Ex. A foundation for research was set up in 1936.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a fund given to support an institution. <BR> <I>Ex. Nearly every university today has a foundation for research.</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a part on which other parts are overlaid, such as a material used for stiffening a garment. <DD><B> 8. </B><B>=foundation garment.</B> <DD><B> 9. </B>a cosmetic, usually a liquid or cream, applied as a base before using face powder or rouge. <BR> <I>Ex. You apply the new Scandia foundation, which merits the word "fabulous" in my book, and then powder (New Yorker).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to put a foundation on; cover with a foundation. </DL>
<A NAME="foundational">
<B>foundational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a foundation; fundamental. </DL>
<A NAME="foundationer">
<B>foundationer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a person who is supported by the foundation or endowment of a college or school. </DL>
<A NAME="foundationgarment">
<B>foundation garment,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman's girdle, corset, or similar garment often with an attached brassiere. </DL>
<A NAME="foundationmember">
<B>foundation member,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a charter member. </DL>
<A NAME="foundationstone">
<B>foundation stone,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a large stone or the like, serving as part of the foundation of a structure. <DD><B> 2. </B>the basis or groundwork. <BR> <I>Ex. The very concept of collective security, the foundation stone of all our actions now, was then strange doctrine (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="founder">
<B>founder</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to fill with water and sink. <BR> <I>Ex. The ship foundered in the storm.</I> <DD><B> 2a. </B>to fall down; stumble. <BR> <I>Ex. His horse foundered in the swamp.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be affected with laminitis. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to break down; fail. <BR> <I>Ex. His business has foundered. In this point All his tricks founder (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to fill with water and sink. <BR> <I>Ex. The collision foundered the ship.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cause (a horse) to break down or fall lame. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Golf.) to hit (the ball) into the ground. <DD><I>noun </I> an inflammation in the foot of a horse, mule, etc.; laminitis. </DL>
<A NAME="founder">
<B>founder</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who founds or establishes something. <BR> <I>Ex. His grandfather was the founder of the family fortune.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="founder">
<B>founder</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who casts metals. </DL>
<A NAME="founderous">
<B>founderous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> causing foundering; full of ruts and holes; swampy. </DL>
<A NAME="foundersshares">
<B>founders' shares,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> shares of special stock given to the organizers or promoters of a corporation, in consideration for their services. Founders' shares sometimes carry special voting privileges. </DL>
<A NAME="foundingfather">
<B>founding father,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a man who is or is regarded as a founder of a nation, institution, or the like. <BR> <I>Ex. H. G. Wells ... remains with Verne one of the founding fathers of science fiction (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="foundingfathers">
<B>Founding Fathers,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. History.) the leaders in the struggle to free the original 13 American colonies from Great Britain and in the formation of the United States, especially those instrumental in the writing and ratification of the Constitution. </DL>
<A NAME="foundling">
<B>foundling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a baby or little child found deserted. </DL>
<A NAME="foundlinghospital">
<B>foundling hospital,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an institution for receiving foundlings. </DL>
<A NAME="foundobject">
<B>found object,</B> <B>=objet trouve.</B></DL>
<A NAME="foundpoem">
<B>found poem,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a piece of prose writing presented or reproduced in a form that makes it look or sound like poetry. <BR> <I>Ex. "Found poems" aren't a new idea: William Butler Yeats produced one thirty years ago from the prose of essayist Walter Pater. And the opposite process--presenting poetry as if it were prose--is as old as the Bible (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<B>foundry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a place where metal is melted and molded; place where things are made of molten metal. <DD><B> 2. </B>the process of melting and molding metal; making things of molten metal. <DD><B> 3. </B>things made of molten metal; castings. </DL>
<A NAME="foundryman">
<B>foundryman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a worker in a foundry. </DL>
<A NAME="foundryproof">
<B>foundry proof,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Printing.) the final proof to be checked before plates are made. </DL>
<A NAME="fount">
<B>fount</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=fountain.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) a source. <BR> <I>Ex. The fount of joy's delicious springs (Byron).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fount">
<B>fount</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) font (2). </DL>
<A NAME="fountain">
<B>fountain, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>water flowing or rising into the air in a spray. <BR> <I>Ex. The droplets of the fountain created a gleaming spray in the sunlight.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the pipes through which this water is forced and the basin that receives it. <BR> <I>Ex. A beautiful stone fountain was set in the middle of the garden.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a spring of water. <BR> <I>Ex. The fountain where the animals drank bubbled up from the ground under a stone.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a place to get a drink. <BR> <I>Ex. a drinking fountain, a soda fountain.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) a source; origin. <BR> <I>Ex. He found that his father was a fountain of information about football.</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a container to hold a steady supply of ink, oil, or other liquid similarly used. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to jet, spray, or flow as water from a fountain. <BR> <I>Ex. Spray fountained high and wide, and the first damp patch spread over a knee of my trousers (Manchester Guardian).</I> adj. <B>fountainless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fountained">
<B>fountained, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a fountain or fountains. </DL>
<A NAME="fountainhead">
<B>fountainhead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the source of a stream; fountain or spring from which a stream flows. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) an original source of anything. <BR> <I>Ex. Latin is the fountainhead of the Romance languages.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="fountainofyouth">
<B>Fountain of Youth,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a legendary spring whose waters were supposed to cure any sickness and restore youth. It was sought in the West Indies and Florida by Ponce de Leon and other explorers. </DL>
<A NAME="fountainous">
<B>fountainous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of, like, or having to do with a fountain. <DD><B> 2. </B>containing fountains or springs of water. </DL>
<A NAME="fountainpen">
<B>fountain pen,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pen for writing which has a tube in which to store ink. A fountain pen gives a continuous flow of ink. </DL>
<A NAME="fountainshell">
<B>fountain shell,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, spiral sea shell; conch. </DL>
<A NAME="fountaintree">
<B>fountain tree,</B> <B>=deodar.</B></DL>
<A NAME="fouquieria">
<B>fouquieria, </B>noun. <B>=ocotillo.</B></DL>
<A NAME="four">
<B>four, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>one more than three; 4. <BR> <I>Ex. A dog has four legs.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a set of four things or persons, such as a team of four horses, or the crew of a four-oared boat. <DD><B> 3. </B>a boat with four oars. <DD><B> 4. </B>a playing card, domino, billiard ball, or other part of a game with four spots or "4" on it. <DD><B> 5. </B>a hit in cricket for which four runs are scored. <DD><I>adj. </I> being one more than three. <BR><I>expr. <B>on all fours.</B> </I>See under <B>all fours.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="fouralebar">
<B>four-ale bar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a bar where cheap ale (originally at four-pence a quart) is sold. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) any bar or tavern; pub. </DL>
<A NAME="fourbagger">
<B>four-bagger, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a home run in baseball. </DL>
<A NAME="fourball">
<B>four-ball, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in golf) of or designating a foursome in which four balls are used, the best ball on each side counting at each hole. </DL>
<A NAME="fourcant">
<B>four-cant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> (Nautical.) consisting of four strands, as a rope. <DD><I>noun </I> a four-stranded rope. </DL>
<B>fourche</B> or <B>fourchee, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Heraldry.) (of a cross) having arms that fork at the ends. </DL>
<A NAME="fourchette">
<B>fourchette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a fork or something resembling a fork. <DD><B> 2. </B>a small fold of membrane just inside the rear part of the vulva. <DD><B> 3. </B>the wishbone of a bird. <DD><B> 4. </B>the frog of the hoof of a horse, donkey, or the like. <DD><B> 5. </B>a forked piece of material on a glove, joining the front and back parts of the finger. <BR> <I>Ex. The glove ... has a chamois palm and a terry-cloth back, and the fourchettes--those little panels along the sides of the fingers--are of stretch nylon (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a combination in one hand of a playing card and the next higher or lower one; tenace. </DL>
<A NAME="fourcycle">
<B>four-cycle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a cycle in an internal-combustion engine in which one piston stroke out of every four is a working stroke. </DL>
<A NAME="fourdimensional">
<B>four-dimensional, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Mathematics.) of or denoting a space, extent, set of magnitudes, or other measure or function, each of whose elements can be precisely determined only by four coordinates. </DL>
<A NAME="fourdrinier">
<B>Fourdrinier, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a machine for making paper in a continuous strip or web. </DL>
