v. i. [ imp. Ran r Run; p. p. Run; p. pr. & vb. n. Running. ] [ OE. rinnen, rennen (imp. ran, p. p. runnen, ronnen). AS. rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p. p. gerunnen), and iernan, irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn, p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen, OS. & OHG. rinnan, G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw. rinna, ränna, Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. &rsdot_; (cf. Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival). √11. Cf. Ember, a., Rennet. ] 1. To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of voluntary or personal action: (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten. [ 1913 Webster ]

“Ha, ha, the fox!” and after him they ran. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) To flee, as from fear or danger. [ 1913 Webster ]

As from a bear a man would run for life. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To steal off; to depart secretly. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress. [ 1913 Webster ]

Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. 1 Cor. ix. 24. [ 1913 Webster ]

(e) To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into; as, to run into evil practices; to run in debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted? Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

(f) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle. (g) To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another. [ 1913 Webster ]

Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

(h) To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on. (i) To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on. (j) To creep, as serpents. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Of involuntary motion: (a) To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as, rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold. (b) To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23. [ 1913 Webster ]

(c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. Woodward. [ 1913 Webster ]

(d) To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round. (e) To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means; to go; as, the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago. (f) To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. [ 1913 Webster ]

She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

(g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as, the stage runs between the hotel and the station. (h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass. [ 1913 Webster ]

As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

(i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill runs six days in the week. [ 1913 Webster ]

When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words. [ 1913 Webster ]

The king's ordinary style runneth, “Our sovereign lord the king.” Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ]

(l) To be popularly known; to be generally received. [ 1913 Webster ]

Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolles. [ 1913 Webster ]

(m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

(o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing. [ 1913 Webster ]

In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. I. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

(p) To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land. [ 1913 Webster ]

Customs run only upon our goods imported or exported, and that but once for all; whereas interest runs as well upon our ships as goods, and must be yearly paid. Sir J. Child. [ 1913 Webster ]

(q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run. (r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs. (s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months. (t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body. Stillman (The Horse in Motion). [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Athletics) To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition. [ 1913 Webster ]

As things run, according to the usual order, conditions, quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or specification. --
To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to slacken or loosen. --
To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes. Locke. --
To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without control or guidance. --
To run away with. (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or elopement. (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs away with a carriage. --
To run down. (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks, watches, etc. (b) To decline in condition; as, to run down in health. --
To run down a coast, to sail along it. --
To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an office. --
To run in or
To run into. (a) To enter; to step in. (b) To come in collision with. --
To run into To meet, by chance; as, I ran into my brother at the grocery store. --
To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [ Obs. ] --
To run in with. (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [ R. ] T. Baker. (b) (Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land. --
To run mad,
To run mad after or
To run mad on. See under Mad. --
To run on. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) To continue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph. --
To run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runs out at Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. “Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs.” Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy will soon run out. [ 1913 Webster ] And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] --
To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquor runs over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) To ride or drive over; as, to run over a child. --
To run riot, to go to excess. --
To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through a book. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate. --
To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. --
To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accounts of goods credited run up very fast. [ 1913 Webster ] But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ] --
To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as, the streets ran with blood. (b) To flow while charged with some foreign substance. “Its rivers ran with gold.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation. [ 1913 Webster ]

To run the world back to its first original. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its “punctum saliens.” Collier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot. [ 1913 Webster ]

You run your head into the lion's mouth. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Having run his fingers through his hair. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven. [ 1913 Webster ]

They ran the ship aground. Acts xxvii. 41. [ 1913 Webster ]

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's secrets. Ray. [ 1913 Webster ]

Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The purest gold must be run and washed. Felton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of running goods. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

10. To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below. “He runneth two dangers.” Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure. Dan Quail. [ PJC ]

11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk. [ 1913 Webster ]

He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water. [ 1913 Webster ]

At the base of Pompey's statua,
Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. [ Colloq. U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

16. To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time. [ 1913 Webster ]

17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

18. (Golf) To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

To run a blockade, to get to, or away from, a blockaded port in safety. --
To run down. (a) (Hunting) To chase till the object pursued is captured or exhausted; as, to run down a stag. (b) (Naut.) To run against and sink, as a vessel. (c) To crush; to overthrow; to overbear. “Religion is run down by the license of these times.” Berkeley. (d) To disparage; to traduce. F. W. Newman. --
To run hard. (a) To press in competition; as, to run one hard in a race. (b) To urge or press importunately. (c) To banter severely. --
To run into the ground, to carry to an absurd extreme; to overdo. [ Slang, U.S. ] --
To run off, to cause to flow away, as a charge of molten metal from a furnace. --
To run on (Print.), to carry on or continue, as the type for a new sentence, without making a break or commencing a new paragraph. --
To run out. (a) To thrust or push out; to extend. (b) To waste; to exhaust; as, to run out an estate. (c) (Baseball) To put out while running between two bases. Also called
to run out. --
To run the chances or
To run one's chances, to encounter all the risks of a certain course. --
To run through, to transfix; to pierce, as with a sword. “[ He ] was run through the body by the man who had asked his advice.” Addison. --
To run up. (a) To thrust up, as anything long and slender. (b) To increase; to enlarge by additions, as an account. (c) To erect hastily, as a building. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A small stream; a brook; a creek. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which runs or flows in the course of a certain operation, or during a certain time; as, a run of must in wine making; the first run of sap in a maple orchard. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck. [ 1913 Webster ]

They who made their arrangements in the first run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their calamities. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. State of being current; currency; popularity. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run, or long continuance, if not diversified with humor. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights. [ 1913 Webster ]

A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense run. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run. Howitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Naut.) (a) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter. (b) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles. (c) A voyage; as, a run to China. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. A pleasure excursion; a trip. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I think of giving her a run in London. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

11. (Mining) The horizontal distance to which a drift may be carried, either by license of the proprietor of a mine or by the nature of the formation; also, the direction which a vein of ore or other substance takes. [ 1913 Webster ]

12. (Mus.) A roulade, or series of running tones. [ 1913 Webster ]

13. (Mil.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed. [ 1913 Webster ]

14. The act of migrating, or ascending a river to spawn; -- said of fish; also, an assemblage or school of fishes which migrate, or ascend a river for the purpose of spawning. [ 1913 Webster ]

15. (Sport) In baseball, a complete circuit of the bases made by a player, which enables him to score one point; also, the point thus scored; in cricket, a passing from one wicket to the other, by which one point is scored; as, a player made three runs; the side went out with two hundred runs; the Yankees scored three runs in the seventh inning. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

The “runs” are made from wicket to wicket, the batsmen interchanging ends at each run. R. A. Proctor. [ 1913 Webster ]

16. A pair or set of millstones. [ 1913 Webster ]

17. (Piquet, Cribbage, etc.) A number of cards of the same suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

18. (Golf) (a) The movement communicated to a golf ball by running. (b) The distance a ball travels after touching the ground from a stroke. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

At the long run, now, commonly,
In the long run, in or during the whole process or course of things taken together; in the final result; in the end; finally. [ 1913 Webster ] [ Man ] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he surpasses them in the long run. J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ] --
Home run. (a) A running or returning toward home, or to the point from which the start was made. Cf. Home stretch. (b) (Baseball) See under Home. --
The run, or
The common run, or
The run of the mill etc., ordinary persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ] I saw nothing else that is superior to the common run of parks. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ] Burns never dreamed of looking down on others as beneath him, merely because he was conscious of his own vast superiority to the common run of men. Prof. Wilson. [ 1913 Webster ] His whole appearance was something out of the common run. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ] --
To let go by the run (Naut.), to loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as a sail. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Smuggled; as, run goods. [ Colloq. ] Miss Edgeworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

Run steel, malleable iron castings. See under Malleable. Raymond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. renégat, Prov. renegat. LL. renegatus; confused with E. run and gate a way. See Renegade. ] A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade. Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

Wretched runagates from the jail. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who has not been a runagate from duty? Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a delaying or evasive, and sometimes deceptive, answer to an inquiry or request. [ PJC ]

n. (Med.) A whitlow running around the finger nail, but not affecting the bone. [ Colloq. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. 1. Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. 1. One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou runaway, thou coward, art thou fled? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. runcatio, fr. runcare to weed out. ] A weeding. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]