An aggregation or deposit of resources from which supplies
are or may be drawn for carrying on any work, or for maintaining
existence.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To place in a fund, as money.

To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular
interest; as, to fund the floating debt.