Definition

One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.

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FOUNDER (verb)

1. To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. 2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. For which his horse fearé gan to turn, And leep ...