Also 6 fownder. [f. FOUNDER v. (senses 4–5).]

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  1.  Inflammation of the laminar structures of a horse’s foot, resulting usually from overwork; a similar disease in dogs.

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1547.  Salesbury, Welsh Dict., Fraeo val march, fownder.

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1708.  J. C., Compl. Collier (1845), 34. It is very convenient to refresh these constant hard working Horses in their Limbs, in Summer time, otharwise they are subject to Beat or Founder to their Feet or Leggs.

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1825.  Loudon, Agric., § 6517 (1831), 987. Founder of the feet is of two kinds, acute and chronic.

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1884.  Speedy, Sport, iii. 31. Kennel lameness, founder, and rheumatism are often caused by one dog of a quarrelsome disposition being master in the kennel, and constantly growling.

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  2.  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the chest in horses. Called also body-, chest-founder.

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1737.  H. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1756), I. 275. They were often mistaken even in what they call the Chest or Body-founder.

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1818.  Sporting Mag., II. 171. I agree with the French writers that the founder is a fluxion.

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