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Chapellany :: Chapellany (n.) A chapel within the jurisdiction of a church; a subordinate ecclesiastical foundation.

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..

Footing :: Footing (n.) Ground for the foot; place for the foot to rest on; firm foundation to stand on.

Podium :: Podium (n.) The masonry under the stylobate of a temple, sometimes a mere foundation, sometimes containing chambers..

Undermine :: Undermine (v. t.) Fig.: To remove the foundation or support of by clandestine means; to ruin in an underhand way; as, to undermine reputation; to undermine the constitution of the state..

Fellowship :: Fellowship (n.) A foundation for the maintenance, on certain conditions, of a scholar called a fellow, who usually resides at the university..

Bursary :: Bursary (n.) A scholarship or charitable foundation in a university, as in Scotland; a sum given to enable a student to pursue his studies..

Institution :: Institution (n.) An established or organized society or corporation; an establishment, especially of a public character, or affecting a community; a foundation; as, a literary institution; a charitable institution; also, a building or the buildings occupied or used by such organization; as, the Smithsonian Institution..

Commoner :: Commoner (n.) A student in the university of Oxford, Eng., who is not dependent on any foundation for support, but pays all university charges; - - at Cambridge called a pensioner..

Stand :: Stand (n.) To continue upright in a certain locality, as a tree fixed by the roots, or a building resting on its foundation..

Groundless :: Groundless (a.) Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion..

Underskirt :: Underskirt (n.) A petticoat; the foundation skirt of a draped dress.

Radical :: Radical (a.) Hence: Of or pertaining to the root or origin; reaching to the center, to the foundation, to the ultimate sources, to the principles, or the like; original; fundamental; thorough-going; unsparing; extreme; as, radical evils; radical reform; a radical party..

Foundation :: Foundation (n.) The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course (see Base course (a), under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry..

Chapel :: Chapel (n.) a small church, often a private foundation, as for a memorial.

Dominican :: Dominican (n.) One of an order of mendicant monks founded by Dominic de Guzman, in 1215. A province of the order was established in England in 1221. The first foundation in the United States was made in 1807. The Master of the Sacred Palace at Rome is always a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A water-tight box, of timber or iron within which work is carried on in building foundations or structures below the water level..

Underlie :: Underlie (v. t.) To be at the basis of; to form the foundation of; to support; as, a doctrine underlying a theory..

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..

Subverant :: Subvert (v. i.) To overthrow anything from the foundation; to be subversive.

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