Forms: see FIND v. [pa. pple. of FIND v.]
1. Discovered, met with, ascertained, etc. (see the verb). Also, with adv. prefixed, as new found, † rare found.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 347. But ȝif he took more charge upon him bi his newe foundun ordenaunce.
c. 1450. Mirour Saluacioun, 231.
| Also the founden shepe broght home yt arst was lorne | |
| And Elye yt in a cart of fire to paradise was borne. |
1553. Eden (title), A treatyse of the newe India, with other new founde landes and Ilandes.
1571. Digges, Pantom., IV. prob. xxiv. Ee iij b. The square of the Dodecaedrons founde side.
1594. Blundevil, Exerc., I. (ed. 7) 96. Double the foresaid found roote 13.
1603–8. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1638), 214. His great vertues, and rare found courtesie (in so great fortune) together with so many worthie seruices as he had done, supported him against the malice of the same.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xiii. (1840), 225. As for our lost, but now found comrade, her complement of men was a hundred and eighty, or thereabouts.
a. 1823. May Collin, in Child, Ballads, I. (1882), 58/1.
| ‘Where have you been, fair May Collin? | |
| Who owns this dapple grey?’ | |
| ‘It is a found one,’ she replied, | |
| ‘That I got on the way.’ |
† b. Said of children exposed or abandoned; found child (brat, etc.) = FOUNDLING. Obs.
1655. Valentine & Orson, 53. This Found-fellow I perceive growes in great favour with the King, and there must be some course taken to cross his Designs. Ibid., xii. 56. They call me Found-brat, which grieveth my very soul.
1662. Petty, Taxes, 4. The Maintenance of Orphans, found and exposed children.
c. Found stones: stones obtained from the surface of the ground without quarrying.
1885. Blacklaws Quarry Price List, Ruble & Founds. Found Stones, not above 7 in. thick per sup. foot 41/2d.
2. Furnished with stores, supplies, or the like; of a ship, equipped; only with defining word prefixed, as well found, single found (see quot. 1799).
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 94. He recommended that we should build a strong and very well found sloop of about 50 tons burthen.
1799. Naval Chron., I. 216. Her materials were what is called single found, i. e. she had only one anchor, one cable, &c.
1857. R. Tomes, Amer. in Japan, ii. 35. It is rarely that these gales blow into the harbor; but when they do, a tremendous sea is thrown into the little port, and the strongest moored and best found vessels can hardly escape disaster.
1864. Burton, Scot Abr., II. ii. 144. The garrison is large, and well found.
