n. 1. 1 a versatile person who is expert at many things. she's the best all-rounder they've seen in years
Syn. -- all arounder [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. struck with an intense and usually sudden surprise sufficient to produce wonder or perplexity
Syn. -- amazed, astonied, astonished, dumbfounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. having the limits or boundaries established.
Syn. -- delimited. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having a defined physical border. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Math.) the quality of being finite.
Syn. -- finiteness, finitude. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. p & a. [ Old. p. p. of bind. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Bound; fastened by bonds. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Under obligation; bound by some favor rendered; obliged; beholden. [ 1913 Webster ]

This holy word, that teacheth us truly our bounden duty toward our Lord God in every point. Ridley. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Made obligatory; imposed as a duty; binding. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am much bounden to your majesty. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, limits; a boundary. Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who behaves dishonorably or objectionably; a cad. [ PJC ]

(Far.) A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. combined into or constituting a chemical compound. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a compounder of medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who attempts to bring persons or parties to terms of agreement, or to accomplish ends by compromises. “Compounders in politics.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. One who compounds a debt, obligation, or crime. [ 1913 Webster ]

Religious houses made compounders
For the horrid actions of their founders. Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. One at a university who pays extraordinary fees for the degree he is to take. [ Eng. ] A. Wood. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Eng. Hist.) A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Confused; perplexed; unclear in mind or intent; bewildered.
Syn. -- at sea, befuddled, bemused, bewildered, confused, mazed, mixed-up. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a most confounded tory. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Extremely; odiously; detestably. [ Colloq. ] “Confoundedly sick.” Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being confounded. [ 1913 Webster ]

Their witty descant of my confoundedness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who confounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Scot. craig a rock. See 1st Crag. ] (Zool.) The pole flounder. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. same as astounded.
Syn. -- amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. astonished and confounded.
Syn. -- amazed, dumfounded. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. same as dumbfounded.
Syn. -- amazed, astonied, astonished, astounded, flabbergasted, stunned, stupefied, thunderstruck. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To dumfound; to confound. [ Written also dumbfounder. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who expounds or explains; an interpreter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Sw. flundra; akin to Dan. flynder, Icel. fly&unr_;ra, G. flunder, and perh. to E. flounder, v.i. ] 1. (Zool.) A flatfish of the family Pleuronectidæ, of many species. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The common English flounder is Pleuronectes flesus. There are several common American species used as food; as the smooth flounder (P. glabra); the rough or winter flounder (P. Americanus); the summer flounder, or plaice (Paralichthys dentatus), Atlantic coast; and the starry flounder (Pleuronectes stellatus). [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bootmaking) A tool used in crimping boot fronts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Floundered p. pr. & vb. n. Floundering. ] [ Cf. D. flodderen to flap, splash through mire, E. flounce, v.i., and flounder the fish. ] To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, and tumble; to flounce. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have floundered on from blunder to blunder. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of floundering. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. based; -- often used as combining terms; as, well-founded suspicions.
Syn. -- based. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. OF. fondeor, F. fondateur, L. fundator. ] One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Found to cast. ] One who founds; one who casts metals in various forms; a caster; as, a founder of cannon, bells, hardware, or types. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fonder's dust. Same as Facing, 4. --
Founder's sand, a kind of sand suitable for purposes of molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Foundered p. pr. & vb. n. Foundering. ] [ OF. fondrer to fall in, cf. F. s'effondrer, fr. fond bottom, L. fundus. See Found to establish. ] 1. (Naut.) To become filled with water, and sink, as a ship. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fall; to stumble and go lame, as a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

For which his horse fearé gan to turn,
And leep aside, and foundrede as he leep. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To fail; to miscarry. “All his tricks founder.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To cause internal inflammation and soreness in the feet or limbs of (a horse), so as to disable or lame him. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Far.) (a) A lameness in the foot of a horse, occasioned by inflammation; closh. (b) An inflammatory fever of the body, or acute rheumatism; as, chest founder. See Chest ffounder. James White. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Mining) The first shaft sunk. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Founderies [ F. fonderie, fr. fondre. See Found to cast, and cf. Foundry. ] Same as Foundry. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a cannon that throws a 4-pound shot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a grounded or firmly established manner. Glanvill. [ 1913 Webster ]

obs. p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Baseball) A batted ball that hits the ground before it leaves the infield, or the act of hitting a baseball along the ground; also called ground ball; -- contrasted with fly or fly ball.
Syn. -- . [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Wounded to the heart with love or grief. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who impounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ F. ondé, -ée, fr. onde, L. unda, a wave. ] Wavy; waving; curly. [ Obs. ] “Owndie hair.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Before the English reform act of 1867, one who was an elector by virtue of paying ten pounds rent was called a ten pounder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who refounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Phonetics) Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. rondel a roundelay, F. rondel, rondeau, a dim. fr. rond; for sense 2, cf. F. rondelle a round, a round shield. See Round, a., and cf. Rondel, Rondelay. ] 1. (Mus.) A rondelay. “Sung all the roundel lustily.” Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Come, now a roundel and a fairy song. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything having a round form; a round figure; a circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Spaniards, casting themselves into roundels, . . . made a flying march to Calais. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Specifically: (a) A small circular shield, sometimes not more than a foot in diameter, used by soldiers in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. (b) (Her.) A circular spot; a sharge in the form of a small circle. (c) (Fort.) A bastion of a circular form. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. rondelet, dim. of rondel. See Roundel, Roundeau, and cf. Roundlet, Rundlet. ] 1. (Poetry) See Rondeau, and Rondel. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mus.) (a) A tune in which a simple strain is often repeated; a simple rural strain which is short and lively. Spenser. Tennyson. (b) A dance in a circle. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Anything having a round form; a roundel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A tool for making an edge or surface round. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A herd of wild hogs. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A large oceanic fish (Elops saurus) found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no bound or limit; as, unbounded space; an, unbounded ambition. Addison. -- Un*bound"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*bound"ed*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. un- not + confounded. ] Not confounded. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not founded; not built or established. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations. Paley. [ 1913 Webster ]