Definition of Foundings

1. founding [n] - See also: founding

Lexicographical Neighbors of Foundings

founder effects
founder principle
foundered
founderies
foundering
founderous
founders
foundershaft
foundery
foundherentism
foundherentist
founding
founding father
founding member
founding members
foundings
foundling
foundling hospital
foundling wheel
foundlings
foundress
foundresses
foundries
foundry
foundry proof
foundryman
foundryman's fever
foundrymen
founds
fount

Literary usage of Foundings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1808)
"... or foundings; fleer from thence EBS { S. in order to keep your latitude by ... till by your,log you have run 80 leagues from the above foundings of loo ..."

2. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography, Under the Editorial Supervision of Lyon edited by Lyon Gardiner Tyler (1915)
"foundings until he finally wrung from the despoilers a considerable part of their ill- gotten gains. In the course of the litigation several appeals were ..."

3. A voyage round the world by the way of the great South sea by George Shelvocke (1726)
"South, foundings in 95 fathom grey and black fand. In 44 deg. 5 8 min. South, foundings from 65 to 70 fathom the fame. In 45 deg. 16 min. ..."

4. The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the by John Sinclair (1793)
"It is very probable that the latter foundings were in the fouth end of it. near which the army then lay in encampment. The foundings by George Scot and ..."

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