foundation plate

1. Book bind .: The base plate on which ornaments are arranged in the stamping or embo ing pre . 2. Steam -eng.: The bed-plate of a steam-engine. foundation-school, s. A school supported by an endowment; an endowed school. foundation-stone, s. 1. A stone in a public building laid publicly with ceremony: it is not nece arily any part of the foundation. 2. The foundations. "My castles are my king's alone, From turret to foundation - stone ." Scott: Marmion, vi. 13. foun-da-tion, v. t. [FOUNDATION, 8.] To found, to settle, to ground. "He that foundations not himself with the arts."-Felthams Resolves .