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[ The first operation is to heat up the pots thoroughly, before filling them. This occupies from two to four hours, and on it depends in a great measure the succe of the subsequent melting or found . Gla - making , p. 120. found4 (found), n. [Origin obscure.] A three sided, single-cut file, used in making combs. found5t, v. i. [ME. founden , funden , fundian , hasten, find an , pp. funden , find: see find .] To hasten; go (to get or seek something); strive. found (found), v. t. A dialectal variant of fond2 , fand2 . foundation (foun-da's hon), n . [ foun dacioun , fundacioun , fond at i on , F. fonda tion = Pr. fundacio , fond at i on = Sp. fund a cion = Pg . fund ação = It. fond azione , datio (n-), foundation, fund are , found: see found2 .] 1. The act of founding, originating, or beginning to raise or build; the act of establishing. Thou lovedst me before the foundation of the world. John xvii. 24. That authority which had belonged to the baronage of England ever since the foundation of the monarchy. Macaulay , Hist. Eng. 2. The solid ground or substructure on which the walls of a building rest; also, the lowest division of the building or wall, which is generally below the surface of the ground. Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone,... a precious corner stone, a sure foundation . Isa. xxviii. 16. Hence-3. The basis or groundwork of any thing; that on which anything thing stands and by which it is supported or confirmed. So shook the whole foundation of his mind, As they did all his resolution move. Daniel, Civil Wars, vi. He [Giles D'Anez) returned with the same good fortune to Portugal, after having found. that there was no foundation for those monstrous appearances or difficulties mariners till now had expected to find there. Bruce, Source of the Nile, II. 99. I cannot but think that the foundations of all natural knowledge were laid when the reason of man first came face to face with the facts of Nature. Huxley , Lay Sermons, p. 11.