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Fund [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A stock or capital; a sum of money appropriated as the foundation of some commercial or other operation, undertaken with a view to profit, and by means of which expenses and credit are supported. Thus the capital stock of a banking institution is called its fund; the joint stock of a commercial or manufacturing house constitutes its fund or funds; and hence the word is applied to the money which an individual may possess, or the means he can employ for carrying on any enterprise or operation. No prudent man undertakes an expensive business without funds.

2. Money lent to government, constituting a national debt; or the stock of a national debt. Thus we say, a man is interested in the funds or public funds, when he owns the stock or the evidences of the public debt; and the funds are said to rise or fall, when a given amount of that debt sells for more or less in the market.

3. Money or income destined to the payment of the interest of a debt.

4. A sinking fund is a sum of money appropriated to the purchase of the public stocks or the payment of the public debt.

5. A stock or capital to afford supplies of any kind; as a fund of wisdom or good sense; a fund of wit. Hence.

6. Abundance; ample stock or store.

Fund [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To provide and appropriate a fund or permanent revenue for the payment of the interest of; to make permanent provision of resources for discharging the annual interest of; as, to fund exchequer bills or government notes; to fund a national debt.

2. To place money in a fund

Fund [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining existence.

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.

3. 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.

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.

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.

Fund [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

2. To place in a fund, as money.

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

Fundable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertible into bonds.

Fundament [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The seat; the lower part of the body or of the intestinum rectum.

2. Foundation. [Not in use.]

Fundament [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Foundation.

2. The part of the body on which one sits; the buttocks; specifically (Anat.), the anus.

Fundamental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for the foundation. Hence, essential; important; as a fundamental truth or principle; a fundamental law; a fundamental sound or chord in music.

Fundamental [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A leading or primary principle, rule, law or article, which serves as the ground work of a system; essential part; as the fundamentals of the christian faith.

Fundamental [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Fundamental [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Fundamentally [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Primarily; originally; essentially; at the foundation. All power is fundamentally in the citizens of a state.

Fundamentally [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.

Funded [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Furnished with funds for regular payment of the interest of.

Funded [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Existing in the form of bonds bearing regular interest; as, funded debt.

2. Invested in public funds; as, funded money.

Funded [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Fundholder [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who has money invested in the public funds.

Funding [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Providing funds for the payment of the interest of.

Funding [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Providing a fund for the payment of the interest or principal of a debt.

2. Investing in the public funds.

Funding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Funds Encyclopedia Britannica

FUNDS, FUNDING SYSTEM. See National Debt.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 9, p. 824
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Fundus [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The bottom or base of any hollow organ; as, the fundus of the bladder; the fundus of the eye.