found

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of find

   Synonyms: discovered, repertitious

1. uncountableFood and lodging; board.

   He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found.

   1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5

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   I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also.

   1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2009

present singular third person founds · participle present founding · participle past founded · past founded · first person past singular founded · archaic present second person singular foundest · past second person singular founded · archaic past second person singular foundedst · present singular third person founds · archaic present singular third person foundeth · past singular third person founded · past plural founded · past subjunctive founded · participle present founding · participle past founded

1. transitiveTo start (an institution or organization).

   “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …”

   1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad

   Synonyms: establish

2. transitiveTo begin building.
3. transitiveTo use as a foundation; to base.

   Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be fruitleſs to found any legal proſecution upon that circumſtance.

   1789 May 27, [John Moore], chapter XXII, in Zeluco. Various Views of Human Nature, Taken from Life and Manners, Foreign and Domestic., volume I, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan; and T[homas] Cadell, […], →OCLC, page 203

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   […] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his reasoning upon, and the nature of the deductions which were the result of his researches.

   1827, [Alexander] Dirom, Remarks on Free Trade, and on the State of the British Empire, Edinburgh: […] Cadell & Co., […], Edinburgh; and Longman, Rees, & Co., London, page 36

   His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the Sixth, be granted by a Charter making no reference to a Seat in Parliament or the Dignity of a Lord of Parliament, Counsel abandoned the claim under the Charter and insisted that the other evidence sufficiently supported the claim of the Heir of Line.

   1867, In the House of Lords. Supplemental Case on Behalf of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, on His Claim to the Dignity of Lord Kinloss in the Peerage of Scotland., page 13

present singular third person founds · participle present founding · participle past founded · past founded

1. transitiveTo melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
2. transitiveTo form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.

   Whereof to found their engines.

   1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC

1. no pluraltransitiveartsThe period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

plural founds

1. transitiveA thin, single-cut file for comb-makers.