Word Meanings - PROSIPHON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A minute tube found in the protocon

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• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• PROTOCONCH
  The embryonic shell, or first chamber, of ammonites and other cephalopods.
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• MINUTEMAN
  A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; -- a term used in the American Revolution.
• MINUTE-JACK
  1. A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house. 2. A timeserver; an inconstant person. Shak.
• FOUNDERSHAFT
  The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
• MINUTENESS
  The quality of being minute.
• FOUNDRY
  1. The act, process, or art of casting metals. 2. The buildings and works for casting metals. Foundry ladle, a vessel for holding molten metal and conveying it from cupola to the molds.
• FOUNDATIONLESS
  Having no foundation.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• CONFOUNDEDLY
  Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith.
• REFOUND
  1. To found or cast anew. "Ancient bells refounded." T. Warton. 2. To found or establish again; to re
• CHEST FOUNDER
  A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.
• AMPERE HOUR; AMPERE MINUTE; AMPERE SECOND
  The quantity of electricity delivered in one hour by a current whose average strength is one ampère. It is used as a unit of quantity, and is equal to 3600 coulombs. The terms Ampère minute and Ampère second are sometimes similarly used.
• REFOUNDER
  One who refounds.
• DUMFOUNDER
  To dumfound; to confound.