Definition of find

• v. t. - 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.
• v. t. - To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel.
• v. t. - To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost.
• v. t. - To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom.
• v. t. - To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance.
• v. t. - To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means.
• v. t. - To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• v. t. - To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money.
• v. t. - 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.
• v. i. - To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff.
• n. - Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.