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Unfounded :: Unfounded (a.) Having no foundation; baseless; vain; idle; as, unfounded expectations..

Air-built :: Air-built (a.) Erected in the air; having no solid foundation; chimerical; as, an air-built castle..

Grillage :: Grillage (n.) A framework of sleepers and crossbeams forming a foundation in marshy or treacherous soil.

Sill :: Sill (n.) The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loom, and the like..

Bedplate :: Bedplate (n.) The foundation framing or piece, by which the other parts are supported and held in place; the bed; -- called also baseplate and soleplate..

Substylar :: Substructure (n.) An under structure; a foundation; groundwork.

Water Table :: Water table () A molding, or other projection, in the wall of a building, to throw off the water, -- generally used in the United States for the first table above the surface of the ground (see Table, n., 9), that is, for the table at the top of the foundation and the beginning of the upper wall..

Support :: Support (n.) That which upholds, sustains, or keeps from falling, as a prop, a pillar, or a foundation of any kind..

Consist :: Consist (v. i.) To have as its substance or character, or as its foundation; to be; -- followed by in..

Founder :: Founder (n.) One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows..

Settle :: Settle (v. i.) To sink gradually to a lower level; to subside, as the foundation of a house, etc..

Groundwork :: Groundwork (n.) That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.

Foundationer :: Foundationer (n.) One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That which is founded, or established by endowment; an endowed institution or charity..

Fundamentally :: Fundamentally (adv.) Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.

Subvert :: Subvert (v. t.) To overturn from the foundation; to overthrow; to ruin utterly.

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) That upon which anything is founded; that on which anything stands, and by which it is supported; the lowest and supporting layer of a superstructure; groundwork; basis..

Long :: Long (adv.) At a point of duration far distant, either prior or posterior; as, not long before; not long after; long before the foundation of Rome; long after the Conquest..

Bed :: Bed (v. t.) To lay or put in any hollow place, or place of rest and security, surrounded or inclosed; to embed; to furnish with or place upon a bed or foundation; as, to bed a stone; it was bedded on a rock..

Basis :: Basis (n.) The foundation of anything; that on which a thing rests.

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