Word Meanings - SPHAEROSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.
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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 - FOUNDLING
A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings. - TETRASPORE
A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a. - NONSEXUAL
Having no distinction of sex; sexless; neuter. - FOUNDING
The art of smelting and casting metals. - FOUNDERSHAFT
The first shaft sunk. Raymond. - 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. - 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. - REFOUNDER
One who refounds. - DUMFOUNDER
To dumfound; to confound. - UNCONFOUNDED
Not confounded. Bp. Warburton. - PROFOUND
1. Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep. "A gulf profound." Milton. 2. Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound