Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter R - Page 87

Run (a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

Run (a.) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.

Run (a.) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

Run (a.) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.

Run (a.) 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.

Run (a.) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.

Run (a.) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.

Run (a.) To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.

Run (a.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.

Run (a.) 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.

Run (a.) 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.

Run (v. t.) 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.

Run (v. i.) To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

Run (v. i.) To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.

Run (v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

Run (v. i.) To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.

Run (v. i.) To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.

Run (v. i.) To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.

Run (v. i.) To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.

Run (v. i.) To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.

Run (v. i.) 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.

Run (v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

Run (v. i.) To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

Run (v. i.) To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.

Run (v. i.) To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.

Run (v. i.) To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.

Run (v. i.) 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.

Run (v. i.) To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.

Run (n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.

Run (n.) A small stream; a brook; a creek.

Run (n.) 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.

Run (n.) A course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck.

Run (n.) State of being current; currency; popularity.

Run (n.) Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.

Run (n.) A continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.

Run (n.) A range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run.

Run (n.) The aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.

Run (n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.

Run (n.) A voyage; as, a run to China.

Run (n.) A pleasure excursion; a trip.

Run (n.) 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.

Run (n.) A roulade, or series of running tones.

Run (n.) The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.

Run (n.) 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.

Run (n.) 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.

Run (n.) A pair or set of millstones.

Run (a.) Melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.

Run (a.) Smuggled; as, run goods.

Runagate (n.) A fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. See Renegade.

Runaway (n.) One who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive.

Runaway (n.) The act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday.

Runaway (a.) Running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse.

Runaway (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage.

Runaway (a.) Won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory.

Runaway (a.) Very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller.

Runcation (n.) A weeding.

Runch (n.) The wild radish.

Runcinate (a.) Pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion.

Rundel (n.) A moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet.

Rundel (n.) A circle.

Rundle (n.) A round; a step of a ladder; a rung.

Rundle (n.) A ball.

Rundle (n.) Something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan.

Rundle (n.) One of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Rundlet (n.) A small barrel of no certain dimensions. It may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons.

Rune (n.) A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general.

Rune (n.) Old Norse poetry expressed in runes.

Runer (n.) A bard, or learned man, among the ancient Goths.

Rung () imp. & p. p. of Ring.

Rung (n.) A floor timber in a ship.

Rung (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.

Rung (n.) One of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff.

Rung (n.) One of the radial handles projecting from the rim of a steering wheel; also, one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel.

Runghead (n.) The upper end of a floor timber in a ship.

Runic (a.) Of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the Norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme.

Runlet (n.) A little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook.

Runlet (n.) Same as Rundlet.

Runnel (n.) A rivulet or small brook.

Runner (n.) One who, or that which, runs; a racer.

Runner (n.) A detective.

Runner (n.) A messenger.

Runner (n.) A smuggler.

Runner (n.) One employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc.

Runner (n.) A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.

Runner (n.) The rotating stone of a set of millstones.

Runner (n.) A rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle.

Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

Runner (n.) A horizontal channel in a mold, through which the metal flows to the cavity formed by the pattern; also, the waste metal left in such a channel.

Runner (n.) A trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed.

Runner (n.) The movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached.

Runner (n.) A food fish (Elagatis pinnulatus) of Florida and the West Indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. The name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water.

Runner (n.) Any cursorial bird.

Runner (n.) A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

Runner (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.

Runnet (n.) See Rennet.

Running (a.) Moving or advancing by running.

Running (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.

Running (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.

Running (a.) Successive; one following the other without break or intervention; -- said of periods of time; as, to be away two days running; to sow land two years running.

Running (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.

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