Run (?), v. i. [imp.
Ran (?) or 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. ? to stir up, rouse, Skr. ?
(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: --
2. Of voluntary or personal action:
(a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to
hasten.
"Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they
ran.
Chaucer.
(b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
As from a bear a man would run for
life.
Shak.
(c) To steal off; to depart
secretly.
My conscience will serve me to run from this
jew.
Shak.
(d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into
a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for
Congress.
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.
(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.
Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my
heart with grief and run distracted?
Addison.
(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.
Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set
of precepts foreign to his subject.
Addison.
(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.
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.
The fire ran along upon the ground.
Ex. ix. 23.
(c) To become fluid; to melt; to
fuse.
As wax dissolves, as ice begins to
run.
Addison.
Sussex iron ores run freely in the
fire.
Woodward.
(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.
She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
Pope.
(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.
As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.
Addison.
(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.
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.
(j) To have a course or direction; as, a line
runs east and west.
Where the generally allowed practice runs
counter to it.
Locke.
Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason.
Shak.
(k) To be in form thus, as a combination of
words.
The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our
sovereign lord the king."
Bp. Sanderson.
(l) To be popularly known; to be generally
received.
Men gave them their own names, by which they run
a great while in Rome.
Sir W. Temple.
Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
himself.
Knolles.
(m) To have growth or development; as, boys
and girls run up rapidly.
If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
run to leaves.
Mortimer.
(n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence;
to incline.
A man's nature runs either to herbs or
weeds.
Bacon.
Temperate climates run into moderate
governments.
Swift.
(o) To spread and blend together; to unite;
as, colors run in washing.
In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
distinguished, but near the borders they run into one
another.
I. Watts.
(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.
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.
(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.
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).
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.
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 into.
(a) To enter; to step in. (b)
To come in collision with. -- 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 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.
And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out.
Dryden.
-- 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.
But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
Sir W. Scott.
-- 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.
Run, v. t. (Golf) To strike
(the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run along the ground, as
when approaching a hole.
Run (?), n. 1.
(Piquet, Cribbage, etc.) A number of cards of the same
suit in sequence; as, a run of four in hearts.
2. (Golf) (a) The
movement communicated to a golf ball by running.
(b) The distance a ball travels after touching
the ground from a stroke.
Run (?), 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.
2. To pursue in thought; to carry in
contemplation.
To run the world back to its first
original.
South.
I would gladly understand the formation of a soul, and
run it up to its "punctum saliens."
Collier.
3. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to
run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into
the foot.
You run your head into the lion's
mouth.
Sir W. Scott.
Having run his fingers through his
hair.
Dickens.
4. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to
be driven.
They ran the ship aground.
Acts
xxvii. 41.
A talkative person runs himself upon great
inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's
secrets.
Ray.
Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run
natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
Locke.
5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to
run bullets, and the like.
The purest gold must be run and
washed.
Felton.
6. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to
indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
7. To cause to pass, or evade, offical
restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable
goods.
Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of
running goods.
Swift.
8. To go through or accomplish by running; as,
to run a race; to run a certain career.
9. To cause to stand as a candidate for
office; to support for office; as, to run some one for
Congress. [Colloq. U.S.]
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.
11. To put at hazard; to venture; to
risk.
He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them,
and run his fortune with them.
Clarendon.
12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth
copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot
water.
At the base of Pompey's statua,
Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar
fell.
Shak.
13. To be charged with, or to contain much of,
while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to
run a factory or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]
15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
[Colloq.]
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.
17. To migrate or move in schools; -- said of
fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
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. -- To
run the chances, or 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.
Run (?), n. 1. The
act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick
run; to go on the run.
2. A small stream; a brook; a creek.
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.
4. A course; a series; that which continues in
a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad
luck.
They who made their arrangements in the first
run of misadventure . . . put a seal on their
calamities.
Burke.
5. State of being current; currency;
popularity.
It is impossible for detached papers to have a general
run, or long continuance, if not diversified with
humor.
Addison.
6. Continued repetition on the stage; -- said
of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive
nights.
A canting, mawkish play . . . had an immense
run.
Macaulay.
7. A continuing urgent demand; especially, a
pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
8. A range or extent of ground for feeding
stock; as, a sheep run. Howitt.
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.
10. A pleasure excursion; a trip.
[Colloq.]
I think of giving her a run in
London.
Dickens.
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.
12. (Mus.) A roulade, or series of
running tones.
13. (Mil.) The greatest degree of
swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the
double-quick, but with greater speed.
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.
15. In baseball, a complete circuit of the
bases made by a player, which enables him to score one; 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 "runs" are made from wicket to wicket, the
batsmen interchanging ends at each run.
R. A.
Proctor.
16. A pair or set of millstones.
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.
[Man] starts the inferior of the brute animals, but he
surpasses them in the long run.
J. H.
Newman.
-- 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, etc., ordinary
persons; the generality or average of people or things; also, that
which ordinarily occurs; ordinary current, course, or kind.
I saw nothing else that is superior to the common
run of parks.
Walpole.
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.
His whole appearance was something out of the common
run.
W. Irving.
-- To let go by the run (Naut.), to
loosen and let run freely, as lines; to let fall without restraint, as
a sail.
Run, a. 1. Melted,
or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter;
run iron or lead.
2. Smuggled; as, run goods.
[Colloq.] Miss Edgeworth.
Run steel, malleable iron castings. See under
Malleable. Raymond.