| • | To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. |
| • | To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. |
| • | To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. |
| • | To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. |
| • | To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. |
| • | To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. |
| • | To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. |
| • | To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. |
| • | To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. |
| • | To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. |
| • | Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. |
