\Fund\, n. [OF. font, fond, nom. fonz, bottom, ground, F.
fond bottom, foundation, fonds fund, fr. L. fundus bottom,
ground, foundation, piece of land. See {Found} to establish.]
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. pl. 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.
         An inexhaustible fund of stories.     --Macaulay.
{Sinking fund}, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and
   invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the
   extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a
   corporation, by the accumulation of interest.

\Fund\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Funded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Funding}.]
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.