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n. [ OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F. fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom, ground, foundation, piece of land. See Found to establish. ] 1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation undertaken with a view to profit; that reserve by means of which expenses and credit are supported; as, the fund of a bank, commercial house, manufacturing corporation, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. The stock of a national debt; public securities; evidences (stocks or bonds) of money lent to government, for which interest is paid at prescribed intervals; -- called also public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A store laid up, from which one may draw at pleasure; a supply; a full provision of resources; as, a fund of wisdom or good sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

An inexhaustible fund of stories. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Funded; p. pr. & vb. n. Funding. ] 1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources (as by a pledge of revenue from customs) for discharging the interest of or principal of; as, to fund government notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place in a fund, as money. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fundament, fundement, fondement, OF. fundement, fondement, F. fondement, fr. L. fundamentum foundation, fr. fundare to lay the bottom, to found, fr. fundus bottom. See Fund. ] 1. Foundation. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus. Hume. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. fondamental. ] Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law; important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; a fundamental axiom. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed of the roots or fundamental tones of the chords. --
Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which is its root. --
Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primary colors, under Color. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A leading or primary principle, rule, law, or article, which serves as the groundwork of a system; essential part, as, the fundamentals of the Christian faith. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A system of beliefs based on the interpretation of every word in the Bible, both old and new testaments, as literal truth. It is primarily held by a branch of American Protestants. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. The beliefs or practises based on a rigid adherence to some traditional doctrine; extreme conservatism; as, Moslem fundamentalism; the political fundamentalism of the Christian right. [ PJC ]

n. a supporter of fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to fundamentalists or fundamentalism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. characteristic of a fundamentalist; -- especially, resembling the behavior of a fundamentalist; as, a fundamentalist dislike of new ideas. [ PJC ]

adv. Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents. “Fundamentally defective.” Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. One who has money invested in the public funds. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Investing in the public funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

Funding system, a system or scheme of finance or revenue by which provision is made for paying the interest or principal of a public debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., bottom. ] (Anat.) The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye; the fundus of the uterus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Finance) a mutual fund or partnership of investors who pool large sums of money to speculate in securities, increasing the risk of such activity by using borrowed money to leverage the investments, or by selling short. [ PJC ]

n. A sum of money to be used as petty cash. [ PJC ]

{ } a. [ See Infundibulum. ] Having the form of a funnel; pertaining to an infundibulum. [ 1913 Webster ]

Infundibulate Bryozoa (Zool.), a group of marine Bryozoa having a circular arrangement of the tentacles upon the disk. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. infundibulum funnel + -form: cf. F. infundibuliforme. ] 1. Having the form of a funnel or cone; funnel-shaped. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Same as Funnelform. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. L. Infundibula E. Infundibulums [ L., a funnel, from infundere to pour in or into. See Infuse. ] 1. (Anat.) A funnel-shaped or dilated organ or part; as, the infundibulum of the brain, a hollow, conical process, connecting the floor of the third ventricle with the pituitary body; the infundibula of the lungs, the enlarged terminations of the bronchial tubes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A central cavity in the Ctenophora, into which the gastric sac leads. (b) The siphon of Cephalopoda. See Cephalopoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. -ties [ L. profunditas: cf. F. profondite. See Profound. ] The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc. “The vast profundity obscure.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. re- + fund. ] To fund again or anew; to replace (a fund or loan) by a new fund; as, to refund a railroad loan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. refundere; pref. re- re- + fundere to pour: cf. F. refondre, refonder. See Fuse to melt, and cf. Refound to cast again, 1st Refuse. ] 1. To pour back. [ R. & Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Were the humors of the eye tinctured with any color, they would refund that color upon the object. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give back; to repay; to restore. [ 1913 Webster ]

A governor, that had pillaged the people, was . . . sentenced to refund what he had wrongfully taken. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To supply again with funds; to reimburse. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who refunds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of refunding; also, that which is refunded. [ R. ] Lamb. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. re- + L. infundere to pour in. ] To flow in anew. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. transfundere; trans over, across + fundere to pour, pour out. See Found to cast, and cf. Transfuse. ] To pour from one vessel into another; to transfuse. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]