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adv. [ Pref. a- + sunder. ] Apart; separate from each other; into parts; in two; separately; into or in different pieces or places. [ 1913 Webster ]

I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder. Zech. xi. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wide asunder as pole and pole. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Native name. ] (Zool.) An Indian monkey (Macacus Rhesus), protected by the Hindus as sacred. See Rhesus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Blundered p. pr. & vb. n. Blundering. ] [ OE. blunderen, blondren, to stir, confuse, blunder; perh. allied to blend to mix, to confound by mixture. ] 1. To make a gross error or mistake; as, to blunder in writing or preparing a medical prescription. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To move in an awkward, clumsy manner; to flounder and stumble. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was never distinguished for address, and have often even blundered in making my bow. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

Yet knows not how to find the uncertain place,
And blunders on, and staggers every pace. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

To blunder on. (a) To continue blundering. (b) To find or reach as if by an accident involving more or less stupidity, -- applied to something desirable; as, to blunder on a useful discovery. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to blunder. [ Obs. ] “To blunder an adversary.” Ditton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To do or treat in a blundering manner; to confuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

He blunders and confounds all these together. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Confusion; disturbance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A gross error or mistake, resulting from carelessness, stupidity, or culpable ignorance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Blunder, Error, Mistake, Bull. An error is a departure or deviation from that which is right or correct; as, an error of the press; an error of judgment. A mistake is the interchange or taking of one thing for another, through haste, inadvertence, etc.; as, a careless mistake. A blunder is a mistake or error of a gross kind. It supposes a person to flounder on in his course, from carelessness, ignorance, or stupidity. A bull is a verbal blunder containing a laughable incongruity of ideas. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Either fr. blunder + D. bus tube, box, akin to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus (literally) thunder box, gun, musket. ] 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who is apt to blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blunder + head. ] A stupid, blundering fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by blunders. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a blundering manner. [ 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 ]

‖n. [ Pers. bandar a landing place, pier. ] A boat or raft used in the East Indies in the landing of passengers and goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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 ]

n. One who confounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

v. t. [ From OE. disclaundre, n., for sclandre, esclandre, OF. esclandre. See Sclaundre, Slander. ] To injure one's good name; to slander. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Dissundered p. pr. & vb. n. Dissundering. ] [ Pref. dis- (intens) + sunder. ] To separate; to sunder; to destroy. [ R. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ Cf. Sp. redundar to overflow. ] The lees or dregs of cane juice, used in the distillation of rum. [ West Indies ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The use of dunder in the making of rum answers the purpose of yeast in the fermentation of flour. B. Edwards. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Prov. Eng. also dunderpoll, from dunder, same as thunder. ] A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Thick-headed; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Dunderhead. [ 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 ]

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 ]

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 ]

n. One who impounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Void of understanding. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To yield; to submit; -- usually used with to. [ PJC ]

n. [ Contracted fr. OE. lavender, F. lavandière, LL. lavandena, from L. lavare to wash. See Lave. ] 1. A washerwoman. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Mining) A trough used by miners to receive the powdered ore from the box where it is beaten, or for carrying water to the stamps, or other apparatus, for comminuting, or sorting, the ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Laundered p. pr. & vb. n. Laundering. ] 1. To wash, as clothes; to wash, and to smooth with a flatiron or mangle; to wash and iron; as, to launder shirts. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lave; to wet. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who follows the business of laundering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act, or occupation, of one who launders; washing and ironing. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } v. i. [ Cf. F. mendier to beg, E. mendicant. ] 1. To beg. [ Obs. ] B. Jonson. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To mutter; to mumble; to grumble; to speak indistinctly or disconnectedly; to talk incoherently. [ 1913 Webster ]

He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To utter in a grumbling manner; to mutter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A beggar. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who maunders. [ 1913 Webster ]