Fletcher, Double Marriage

2. 3. To trip; stumble; go lame, as a horse. His hors for fere gan to turne, And leep asyde, and found rede as he leep. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 1829. II. trans. 1. Naut ., to cause to fill and sink, as a ship. We found a strong Tide setting out of the Streights to the Northward, and like to founder our Ship. Dampier, Voyages, I. 3o 2. To cause internal inflammation in the feet of, as a horse, so as to disable or lame him. In Deceit & Subtilty, by such Colour and Device to take Horses, and the said Horses hastily to ride & evil entreat, having no Manner of Conscience or Compa ion in this Behalf, so that the said Horses become all spoiled and foun dered. Babees Book (E. E. T. S), p. 362. I have speeded hither with the very extremest inch of po ibility; I have foundered nine-score and odd posts [post-horses]. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., Are they foundered , ha? his mules have the staggers belike, have they? B. Jonson, Poetaster, i. 1. founder3 (founder), n. [ founder3 , v.] Infar riery , lamene caused by inflammation within the hoof of a horse; laminitis. Also called closh.