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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. food and lodging provided in addition to money; "they worked for $30 and found"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. Food and lodging, board. vb. (en-pastfind) Etymology 2 vb. 1 To begin building. 2 To start some type of organization or company. Etymology 3 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To melt, especially of metal in an industry setting. 2 (context ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a species is found somewhere ▪ This species is found only in the Southern Hemisphere. form/found a party ▪ The two politicians broke away from the PDF to form a new political party. found a city (= start developing a new ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"discovered," late 14c., past participle adjective from find (v.). Expression and found attached to the wages or charges in old advertisements for job openings, travelling berths, etc., indicates that meals are provided. It comes from the expression to ...

Usage examples of found.

Rykor found it aberrational that the Emperor could believe that poverty could be cured by putting the poor in uniforms.

I have not found the damsel ere ye turn back, I must needs abide in this land searching for her.

And although, as has been said, a person who is found to be suspected in this way is not to be branded as a heretic, yet he must undergo a canonical purgation, or he must be caused to pronounce a solemn abjuration as in the case of one convicted of a slight heresy.

On examination, we found a very varicose or enlarged condition of the left spermatic veins, and gave it as our opinion that the seminal loss was wholly due to this abnormal condition and could only be cured by an operation that would remove the varicocele.

Finally, he points out the practical bearing of the subject--for example, the probability of calculus causing sudden suppression of urine in such cases--and also the danger of surgical interference, and suggests the possibility of diagnosing the condition by ascertaining the absence of the opening of one ureter in the bladder by means of the cystoscope, and also the likelihood of its occurring where any abnormality of the genital organs is found, especially if this be unilateral.

For a long time the abnormality was not believed to exist, and some of the observers denied the proof by postmortem examination of any of the cases so diagnosed, but there is at present no doubt of the fact,--three, four, and five testicles having been found at autopsies.

Ed Garrety had not called there, but we found an abo who had seen the dust streamer of a vehicle heading for the Walgun homestead shortly after sundown.

As to them of the Dry Tree, though some few of them abode in the kingdom, and became great there, the more part of them went back to the wildwood and lived the old life of the Wood, as we had found them living it aforetime.

The three of us went first to check on the pool, and found it gratifying abrim with repulsive brown water, wide and deep enough to have submerged our truck.

It was found that the womb had been ruptured and the child killed, for in several days it was delivered in a putrid mass, partly through the natural passage and partly through an abscess opening in the abdominal wall.

At the autopsy it was found that an abscess communicating with the trachea had been formed in the pharynx and esophagus.

If he smoked too many cigarettes and drank too much absinth it was because he took civilization as he found it, and did the things that he found his civilized brothers doing.

Tim had always found himself especially attuned to the deserted charms of Candie Gardens in winter, enjoying the bare traceries of the trees and the widened harbour view, the few points of colour against the monochrome background - the red and pink of the camellias near the top gate, the hanging yellow bells of the winter-flowering abutilon with their red clappers, even the iridescence of the mallard drake circling the largest of the ponds with his speckled mate.

The siege on Glenn Abies is just one phase of a series of strategic federal assassinations, beginning with the murder of Order founder Robert Matthews and including the recent massacre at Waco.

Banish was standing across the barn, near where the Abies girl had been found.