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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Find \Find\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Found}; p. pr & vb n. {Finding}.] [AS. findan; akin to D. vinden, OS & OHG. findan, G. finden, Dan. finde, icel. & Sw finna, Goth. fin?an; and perh. to L. petere to seek, Gr ? to fall, Skr. pat to fall, fly, E. petition.] 1. To meet with or light upon accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of as of something new or unknown; hence to fall in with as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up --Shak. In woods and forests thou art found --Cowley. 2. To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel ``I find you passing gentle.'' --Shak. The torrid zone is now found habitable. --Cowley. 3. To come upon by seeking; as to find something lost. a To discover by sounding; as to find bottom. b To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end as water is found to be a compound substance. c To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as to find leisure; to find means d To attain to to arrive at to acquire. Seek, and ye shall find --Matt. vii. 7. Every mountain now hath found a tongue. --Byron. 4. To provide for to supply; to furnish; as to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages [pounds]14 and all found --London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself --Dickens. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Found \Found\, imp. & p. p. of {Find}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr & vb n. {Founding}.] [F. fondre, L. fundere to found pour.] To form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to cast. ``Whereof to found their engines.'' --Milton. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Found \Found\, n. A thin, single-cut file for combmakers From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Found \Found\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Founded}; p. pr & vb n. {Founding}.] [F. fonder, L. fundare fr fundus bottom. See 1st {Bottom}, and cf {Founder}, v. i., {Fund}.] 1. To lay the basis of to set or place as on something solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis, literal or figurative; to fix firmly. I had else been perfect, Whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --Shak. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --Shak. It fell not for it was founded on a rock. --Matt. vii. 25. 2. To take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or building up to furnish the materials for beginning; to begin to raise; to originate; as to found a college; to found a family. There they shall found Their government, and their great senate choose --Milton. Syn: To base; ground; institute; establish; fix. See {Predicate}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: found adj : come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the lost-and-found department" [ant: {lost}] n : food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found" v 1: set up or found "She set up a literacy program" [syn: {establish}, {set up}, {launch}] [ant: {abolish}] 2: set up or lay the groundwork for "establish a new department" [syn: {establish}, {plant}, {constitute}, {institute}] 3: use as a basis for found on "base a claim on some observation" [syn: {establish}, {base}, {ground}]
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