Also 4, 8 fond. [ad. F. fond-re:—L. fundĕre to pour, melt, FUSE.]
1 1. trans. To dissolve or mix together. Obs.–1
c. 1390[?]. Form of Cury, in Warner, Antiq. Culin., 18. Take wyne and hony, and fond it togyder and skym it clene, and seeth it long.
2. To melt (metal) and run it into a mould; to form ‘an article) by running molten metal into a mould; to cast.
1562. Whitehorne, trans. Macchiavelli’s Arte of Warre (1573), II. 44 a. The Pottes … may also serue to found metalles in.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXIV. ii. 487 Now long before this time these great masters and imageurs, so famous for metall-founding, and casting of images, were dead and gone.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 702.
| A second multitude | |
| With wondrous Art founded the massie Ore. | |
| Ibid., VI. 516. | |
| Part hidd’n veins diggd up (nor hath this Earth | |
| Entrails unlike) of Mineral and Stone, | |
| Whereof to found thir Engins and thir Balls | |
| Of missive ruin. |
1672. Marvell, Reh. Transp., I. 6. O Printing! how hast thou disturb’d the Peace of Mankind! that Lead, when moulded into Bullets, is not so mortal as when founded into Letters!
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 93. A bell at Moskow, founded in Czar Boris’s time, 19 feet high, 23 in diameter, 64 in circumference, and two in thickness, that weighed 336,000 pounds.
b. To melt or fuse (the materials for making glass); to make (glass) by melting the materials in a furnace.
1782. [see vbl. sb. below].
1853. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 907. A Bohemian furnace in which excellent white window glass is founded. Ibid., 914. The fourth is called the arch of the materials, because it serves for drying them before they are founded.
c. fig. (? A pun: cf. FOUND v.2 3 b.)
1624. Fletcher, Rule a Wife, IV. ii.
| Duke. A Fellow founded out of Charity, | |
| And moulded to the height, contemn his Maker, | |
| Curb the free Hand that fram’d him? |
Hence Founding vbl. sb. Also attrib.
1658. W. Burton, Comment. Itin. Antoninus, 156. The magnificent Acts [read Arts] of Statuarie, Founding, Mowlding, Musive, and Graving, prevail to come up here, as among the Greeks and Romans.
1779. Hervey, Naval Hist., III. II. 50. Almost all the more elaborate and curious arts were only cultivated abroad, particularly in Italy, Holland, and the Netherlands: Ship-building, and the founding of iron cannon, were the sole in which the English excelled.
1782. Wedgwood, in Phil. Trans., LXXII. 320. The fonding heat of the glass furnaces I examined, or that by which the perfect vitrification of the materials is produced, was at one of them 114° for flint-glass, and 124° for plate-glass.
1853. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 908. The founding-pots are filled up with these blocks of frit. Ibid., 917. These three stages are called the first, second, and third fusion or founding.
