"found" definition, meaning, and origin

Noun

Food and lodging; board.
- I'll only give you the usual payment—say five hundred dollars a year, and found." / "And—what?" / "Found—that is, board, you know, and clothing, of course, also. - 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram, HTML edition, The...
- He moves north through small settlements and farms, working for day wages and found. - 1985, Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, page 5:

See find.

The period of time when a furnace is at its hottest; the interval in which the furnace is meant to fully melt glass.

From Middle English founden, from Old French fondre, from Latin fundere. Cognate with Spanish fundir and hundir, and French fondre.

To start (an institution or organization).
- “[…] That woman is stark mad, Lord Stranleigh. Her own father recognised it when he bereft her of all power in the great business he founded. …” - 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad:
To begin building.
To use as a foundation; to base.
- Being left alone with him after they had dined, he obſerved, that however ſtrongly he was convinced of Zeluco’s being the writer of the letter, yet as he had had the precaution to diſguiſe his hand-writing, it would be...
- […] being now out of print, I shall use the freedom to give an extract from it, and in an Appendix to this Pamphlet (No. II.), republish one of the Tables that Author refers to, which will shew the facts he founded his...
- His Heir of Line in 1785 claimed the Dignity of Lord Spynie, founding the claim upon the Charter of 1590, but it being certain that a Dignity of the Peerage of Scotland could not, at least in the reign of James the...

From Middle English founden, from Old French founder (Modern French: fonder), from Latin fundāre. Compare fund.

To melt, especially of metal or glass in an industrial setting.
To form by melting a metal and pouring it into a mould; to cast.
- Whereof to found their engines. - 1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […],...