Founder
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1): ( n.) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder.
(2): ( v. i.) To fail; to miscarry.
(3): ( n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
(4): ( n.) One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types.
(5): ( n.) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh.
(6): ( v. t.) To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him.
(7): ( v. i.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship.
(8): ( v. i.) To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse.
King James Dictionary [2]
FOUND'ER, n
1. One that founds, establishes and erects one that lays a foundation as the founder of a temple or city. 2. One who begins an author one from whom any thing originates as the founder of a sect of philosophers the founder of a family or race. 3. One who endows one who furnishes a permanent fund for the support of an institution as the founder of a college or hospital. 4. A caster one who casts metals in various forms as a founder of cannon, belles, hardware, printing types, &c.
FOUND'ER,
1. In seamen's language, to fill or be filled and sink, as a ship. 2. To fail to miscarry. 3. To trip to fell.
FOUND'ER, To cause internal inflammation and great soreness in the feet of a horse, so as to disable or lame him.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [3]
foun´dẽr (from צרף , cāraph ): A worker in molten metal ( Judges 17:4 , etc.). The word in the King James Version in Jeremiah 10:9 , Jeremiah 10:14; Jeremiah 51:17 is rendered in the Revised Version (British and American) "goldsmith," and in Jeremiah 6:29 by a paraphrase, "They go on refining." See Refiner; Goldsmith .
