[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

found \found\,
   imp.  p. p. of find.
   1913 webster
see also:
find 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

found \found\, v. t. imp.  p. p. founded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   founding. f. fondre, l. fundere to found, pour.
   to form by melting a metal, and pouring it into a mold; to
   cast. "whereof to found their engines." --milton.
   1913 webster
see also:
founded founding 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

found \found\, n.
   a thin, single-cut file for combmakers.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

found \found\, v. t. imp.  p. p. founded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   founding. f. fonder, l. fundare, fr. fundus bottom. see
   1st bottom, and cf. founder, v. i., fund.
   1. to lay the basis of; to set, or place, as on something
      solid, for support; to ground; to establish upon a basis,
      literal or figurative; to fix firmly.
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            i had else been perfect,
            whole as the marble, founded as the rock. --shak.
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            a man that all his time
            hath founded his good fortunes on your love. --shak.
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            it fell not, for it was founded on a rock. --matt.
                                                  vii. 25.
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   2. to take the ffirst steps or measures in erecting or
      building up; to furnish the materials for beginning; to
      begin to raise; to originate; as, to found a college; to
      found a family.
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            there they shall found
            their government, and their great senate choose.
                                                  --milton.

   syn: to base; ground; institute; establish; fix. see
        predicate.
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see also:
founded founding bottom founder fund predicate 

[5] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

find \find\ fimacnd, v. t. imp.  p. p. found found; p.
   pr.  vb. n. finding. as. findan; akin to d. vinden, os.
    ohg. findan, g. finden, dan. finde, icel.  sw. finna,
   goth. finthornan; and perh. to l. petere to seek, gr.
   pi`ptein to fall, skr. pat to fall, fly, e. petition.
   1. to meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the
      first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or
      unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person.
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            searching the window for a flint, i found
            this paper, thus sealed up.           --shak.
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            in woods and forests thou art found.  --cowley.
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   2. to learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to
      experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings;
      to detect; to feel. "i find you passing gentle." --shak.
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            the torrid zone is now found habitable. --cowley.
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   3. to come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
      a to discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
      b to discover by study or experiment direct to an object
          or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
      c to gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to
          find leisure; to find means.
      d to attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
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                seek, and ye shall find.          --matt. vii.
                                                  7.
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                every mountain now hath found a tongue. --byron.
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   4. to provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food
      for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
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            wages pounds14 and all found.       --london
                                                  times.
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            nothing a day and find yourself.      --dickens.
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   5. to arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to
      establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill of
      indictment against an accused person.
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            to find his title with some shows of truth. --shak.
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   to find out, to detect a thief; to discover a secret --
      to solve or unriddle a parable or enigma; to understand.
      "canst thou by searching find out god?" --job. xi. 7. "we
      do hope to find out all your tricks." --milton.

   to find fault with, to blame; to censure.

   to find one's self, to be; to fare; -- often used in
      speaking of health; as, how do you find yourself this
      morning?
      1913 webster
see also:
found finding to find out to find fault with to find one's self 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

find
     n 1: a productive insight syn: discovery, breakthrough
     2: the act of discovering something syn: discovery, uncovering
     v 1: come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "we find this idea
          in plato"; "i happened upon the most wonderful bakery
          not very far from here"; "she chanced upon an
          interesting book in the bookstore the other day" syn: happen,
           chance, bump, encounter
     2: discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of;
        "she detected high levels of lead in her drinking water";
        "we found traces of lead in the paint" syn: detect, observe,
         discover, notice
     3: come upon after searching; find the location of something
        that was missed or lost; "did you find your glasses?"; "i
        cannot find my gloves" syn: regain ant: lose
     4: after a calculation, investigation, experiment, survey, or
        study; "find the product of two numbers"; "the physicist
        who found the elusive particle won the nobel prize" syn:
        determine, find out, ascertain
     5: come to believe on the basis of emotion, intuitions, or
        indefinite grounds; "i feel that he doesn't like me"; "i
        find him to be obnoxious"; "i found the movie rather
        entertaining" syn: feel
     6: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "we found republicans
        winning the offices"; "you'll see a lot of cheating in
        this school"; "i want to see results"; "the 1960 saw the
        rebellion of the younger generation against established
        traditions"; "i want to see results" syn: witness, see
     7: get something or somebody for a specific purpose; "i found
        this gadget that will serve as a bottle opener"; "i got
        hold of these tools to fix our plumbing"; "the chairman
        got hold of a secretary on friday night to type the urgent
        letter" syn: line up, get hold, come up
     8: make a discovery, make a new finding; "roentgen discovered
        x-rays"; "physicists believe they found a new elementary
        particle" syn: discover
     9: make a discovery; "she found that he had lied to her"; "the
        story is false, so far as i can discover" syn: discover
     10: obtain through effort or management; "she found the time and
         energy to take care of her aging parents"; "we found the
         money to send our sons to college"
     11: decide on and make a declaration about; "find someone
         guilty" syn: rule
     12: receive a specified treatment abstract; "these aspects of
         civilization do not find expression or receive an
         interpretation"; "his movie received a good review"; "i
         got nothing but trouble for my good intentions" syn: receive,
          get, obtain, incur
     13: perceive oneself to be in a certain condition or place; "i
         found myself in a difficult situation"; "when he woke up,
         he found himself in a hospital room"
     14: get or find back; recover the use of; "she regained control
         of herself"; "she found her voice and replied quickly"
         syn: recover, retrieve, regain
     15: succeed in reaching; arrive at; "the arrrow found its mark"
     16: accept and make use of one's personality, abilities, and
         situation; "my son went to berkeley to find himself"
         syn: find oneself
     also: found
see also:
discovery breakthrough uncovering happen chance bump 
encounter detect observe discover notice 
regain lose determine find out ascertain 
feel witness see line up get hold 
come up rule receive get obtain 
incur recover retrieve find oneself found 

[7] : WordNet (r) 2.0

found
     adj : come upon unexpectedly or after searching; "found art"; "the
           lost-and-found department" ant: lost
     n : food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked
         for $30 and found"
     v 1: set up or found; "she set up a literacy program" syn: establish,
           set up, launch ant: abolish
     2: set up or lay the groundwork for; "establish a new
        department" syn: establish, plant, constitute, institute
     3: use as a basis for; found on; "base a claim on some
        observation" syn: establish, base, ground
see also:
lost establish set up launch abolish plant 
constitute institute base ground 

[8] : WordNet (r) 2.0

found
     see find
see also:
find 

[9] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

166 moby thesaurus words for "found":
   assemble, author, base, bear, bed, beget, begin, blaze, blister,
   block out, bottom, brand, breed, bring about, bring forth,
   bring to effect, bring to pass, bring up, broach, build, build in,
   burn, burn in, burn off, carve, cast, cause, cauterize, char,
   chase, chisel, christen, coal, commence, conceive, confirm,
   constitute, crack, create, cupel, cut, deep-dye, define, develop,
   do, effect, effectuate, efform, embed, engender, engraft, engrave,
   entrench, erect, establish, etch, fashion, father, figure, fix,
   flame, float, forge, form, formalize, frame, generate, gestate,
   give birth to, give occasion to, give origin to, give rise to,
   grave, ground, hew, impact, implant, impress, imprint, inaugurate,
   incept, induct, infix, ingrain, initiate, inscribe, insculpture,
   install, institute, introduce, invest, jam, knead, knock out,
   launch, lay out, lay the foundation, lick into shape, lift up,
   lodge, make, materialize, mint, model, mold, occasion, organize,
   originate, oxidate, oxidize, pack, parch, pitch, plant, predicate,
   print, produce, put in, put up, pyrolyze, raise, realize, rear,
   rest, ring in, root, rough out, roughcast, roughhew, scorch, sculp,
   sculpt, sculpture, sear, seat, set, set afloat, set agoing, set in,
   set on foot, set up, settle, shape, singe, sire, solder, stamp,
   start, start going, start up, stay, stereotype, support, sustain,
   swinge, tailor, thermoform, torrefy, turn on, usher in, vesicate,
   vest, vulcanize, wedge, weld, work

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