founding (founding)

[Verbal n. of found3, v.] The act or proce of casting metals. Now long before this time [A. U. C. 608], those great masters and imageurs, so famous for metall - founding and casting of images, were dead and gone. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxiv. 2. IMG:content-1760.png:[blocks in formation] foundre (foun'dres), n. [ founder1 + -e .] A female founder; a woman who founds or es- tablishes, as a charitable institution, or who en-pre .-7. The supply-chamber of a fountain- dows with a fund, as a school or a hospital. In the midst on the South-side is the Emperour Const an- tines [picture], opposite to his mothers, the memorable Foundre e. Sandys, Travailes, p. 129. Saint Bede's is one of the most ancient of the minor col. leges of Avonsbridge. Its foundre 's... face, clad in the close coif of the time of the wars of the Roses, still smiles over the fellows' table in hall. Mrs. Craik , Christian's Mistake, ii. foundry (foun'dri), n.; pl. foundries (-driz). [Also uncontr. foundery; IMG:content-1761.png:[ocr errors][merged small] Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxiv. 7. pen or of a fountain-inkstand, or the reservoir for oil in certain kinds of lamps, etc. - Hero's fountain, a pneumatic apparatus in which the elastic force of a confined body of air, increased by hydraulic pre ure and reacting upon the surface of water in a closed reservoir, produces a jet which may rise above that surface to a height equal to the effective height of the pre ing column: named from Hero of Alexandria, to whom the invention of the instrument is ascribed. It consists e entially of an open basin, and two closed reservoirs at different levels below the basin. A tube connects the upper parts of both the reservoirs. Another tube con nects the bottom of the basin with the lower part of the lower reservoir. A detachable tube with a jet-nozle at its upper end pa es through the center of the basin and down into and very nearly to the bottom of the higher reservoir. The detachable tube being removed, the higher reservoir is partly filled with water through the opening; then tube is replaced, and water poured into the basin. tallic articles: as, a foundry of bells or of can non; a type- foundry. Foundry iron, iron containing carbon in sufficient quantity to admit of casting. foundry man (foun'dri-man), n.; pl. foundry men (-men). A founder; one engaged in the work of a foundry. The first man he would send home for would be his old pattern maker and the next the bo foundry man. Jour . Franklin Inst ., CXXV. 297. fount1 (fount), n. [ fount , funt , also font , only in the sense of a baptismal font (see font1 ); funt , font = Sp. fuente = Pg. It. fonte , fön (t-)s, a spring, fount, fountain, prob. orig. * fovon ( t- ) s (= Gr. χέων , orig. * χε Foν (τ)ς, ppr. of χεῖν , orig. * χε ρειν , pour), ppr. of a shorter form of the root which appears in fundere , pour, whence ult. E. found3 and fount2 : see found3, fount2, fusel, etc.] 1. A spring of water; a fountain. The soft green gra is growing O'er meadow and o'er dale; The silvery founts are flowing Upon the verdant vale. T. J. Ouseley, Seasons of Life, Spring. IMG:content-1762.png:[blocks in formation]