Run
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. The act of running.
2. Course; motion; as the run of
humor.
3. Flow; as a run of verses to please the ear.
4. Course; process; continued series; as the run of events.
6. Our family must have their run
7. General reception; continued success.
8. It is impossible for detached papers to have a general run or long continuance, if not
diversified with
humor.
9.
Modish or popular
clamor; as a violent run against university education.
10. A general or uncommon pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes.
11. The
aftmost part of a ship's bottom.
12. The distance sailed by a ship; as, we had a good run
13. A voyage; also, an agreement among sailors to work a passage from one place to another.
14. A pair of mill-stones. A mill has two, four or six runs of stones.
15.
Prevalence; as, a disease, opinion or fashion has its run
16. In the middle and southern states of America, a small stream; a
brook.
17. In the long run [at the long run not so generally used, ] signifies the whole process or course of things taken together; in the final result; in the conclusion or end.
Run
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1.
preterit tense ran or run; participle passive run
2. To move or pass in almost any manner, as on the feet or on wheels. Men and other animals run on their feet; carriages run on wheels, and wheels run on their
axle-trees.
3. To move or pass on the feet with
celerity or rapidity, by leaps or long quick steps; as, men and quadrupeds run when in
haste.
4. To use the legs in moving; to step; as, children run alone or run about.
6. The priest and people run about.
7. To proceed along the surface; to extend; to spread; as, the fire runs over a field or forest.
8. The fire ran along upon the ground.
Exodus 9:1 .
9. To
rush with violence; as, a ship runs against a rock; or one ship runs against another.
10. To move or pass on the water; to sail; as, ships run regularly between New York and Liverpool. Before a storm, run into a
harbor, or under the
lee of the land. The ship has run ten knots an hour.
11. To
contend in a race; as, men or horses run for a prize.
12. To
flee for escape. When General
Wolfe was dying, an officer standing by him
exclaimed, see how they run Who run? said the dying hero. The enemy, said the officer. Then I die happy, said the general.
13. To depart privately; to
steal away.
14. My conscience will serve me to run from this
Jew, my master.
15. To flow in any manner, slowly or rapidly; to move or pass; as a fluid. Rivers run to the ocean or to lakes. The
Connecticut runs on sand, and its water is remarkably pure. The tide runs two or three miles an hour. Tears run down the cheeks.
16. To
emit; to let flow.
18. Rivers run potable gold.
19. But this form of expression is
elliptical, with being omitted; 'rivers run with potable gold.'
20. To be liquid or fluid.
21. As wax dissolves, as ice begin to run -
23.
Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
25. Your iron must not burn in the fire, that is, run or
melt, for then it will be brittle.
26. To turn; as, a wheel runs on an axis or on a
pivot.
27. To pass; to proceed; as, to run through a course of business; to run through life; to run in a circle or a line; to run through all degrees of promotion.
28. To flow, as words, language or periods. The lines run smoothly.
29. To pass, as time.
30. As fast as our time runs, we should be
glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster.
31. To have a legal course; to be attached to; to have legal effect.
32. 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.
33. To have a course or direction.
34. Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it.
35. Little is the wisdom, where the flight so runs against all reason.
36. To pass in thought, speech or practice; as, to run through a series of arguments; to run from one
topic to another.
37. Virgil, in his first
Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject.
38. To be mentioned
cursorily or in few words.
39. The whole runs on short, like articles in an account.
40. To have a continued
tenor or course. The conversation ran on the affairs of the Greeks.
41. The king's ordinary style runneth, 'our sovereign lord the king.'
42. To be in motion; to speak
incessantly. Her tongue runs continually.
44. When we desire any thing, our minds run wholly on the good circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
45. To be popularly known.
46. Men gave then their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome.
47. To be received; to have reception, success or continuance. The
pamphlet runs well among a certain class of people.
48. To proceed in succession.
50. To pass from one state or condition to another; as, to run into confusion or error; to run distracted.
51. To proceed in a train of conduct.
52. You should run a certain course.
53. To be in force.
54. The owner hath
incurred the
forfeiture of eight years profits of his lands, before he cometh to the knowledge of the process that runneth against him.
55. To be generally received.
56. He was not ignorant what report run of himself.
57. To be carried; to extend; to rise; as, debates run high.
58. In
popish countries, the power of the clergy runs higher.
59. To have a
track or course.
61. To extend; to lie in continued length. Veins of silver run in different directions.
62. To have a certain direction. The line runs east and west.
63. To pass in an orbit of any figure. The planets run their periodical courses. The comets do not run lawless through the regions of space.
64. To tend in growth or progress. Pride is apt to run into a contempt of others.
65. To grow
exuberantly. Young persons of 10 or 12 years old, soon run up to men and women.
66. If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves,
treading down the leaves will help their rooting.
67. To discharge
pus or other matter; as, an
ulcer runs.
68. To reach; to extend to the
remembrance of; as time out of mind, the memory of which runneth not to the contrary.
69. To continue in time, before it becomes due and payable; as, a note runs thirty days; a note of six months has
ninety days to run
70. To continue in effect, force or operation.
71. The statute may be prevented from running - by the act of the
creditor.
72. To press with numerous demands of payment; as, to run upon a bank.
73. To pass or fall into fault, vice or misfortune; as, to run into vice; to run into evil practices; to run into debt; to run into mistakes.
74. To fall or pass by gradual changes; to make a transition; as, colors run one into another.
75. To have a general tendency.
76. Temperate climates run into moderate governments.
77. To proceed as on a ground or principle. obsolete
78. To pass or proceed in conduct or management.
79. Tarquin, running into all the methods of
tyranny, after a cruel reign was expelled.
81. To slide; as, a
sled or
sleigh runs on the snow.
83. To fly; to move in the air; as, the clouds run from noun E. to S.W.
84. In Scripture, to pursue or practice the duties of religion.
86. In elections, to have interest or favor; to be supported by votes. The
candidate will not run or he will run well.
87. To run after, to pursue or follow.
88. To search for; to
endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after
similes.
89. To run at, to attack with the horns, as a bull.
90. To run away, to
flee; to escape.
92. To convey away; or to assist in escape or
elopement.
93. To run in, to enter; to step in.
94. To run into, to enter; as, to run into danger.
95. To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Not in use.]
96. To run in with, to close; to
comply; to agree with. [Unusual.]
97. To make towards; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in with the land; a
seaman's phrase.
98. To run down a coast, to sail along it.
99. To run on, to be continued. Their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement.
101. To continue a course.
102. To press with jokes or
ridicule; to
abuse with sarcasms; to bear hard on.
103. To run over, to overflow; as, a cup runs over; or the liquor runs over.
106. To
expatiate; as, to run out into beautiful digressions. He runs out in praise of Milton.
107. To be wasted or exhausted; as, an estate managed without economy, will soon run out.
109. And had her stock been less, no doubt she must have long ago run out.
110. To run up, to rise; to swell; to amount. Accounts of goods credited run up very fast.
Run
[Verb transitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1828
1. To drive or
push; in a general sense. Hence to run a sword through the body, is to
stab or
pierce it.
2. To drive; to force.
3. A
talkative person runs himself upon great inconveniences, by
blabbing out his own or others' secrets.
4. Others accustomed to retired speculations, run natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
5. To cause to be driven.
8. The purest gold must be run and washed.
9. To
incur; to
encounter; to run the risk or
hazard of losing one's property. To run the danger, is a phrase not now in use.
11. He would himself be in the Highlands to receive them, and run his fortune with them.
12. To
smuggle; to import or export without paying the duties required by law; as, to run goods.
13. To pursue in thought; to carry in
contemplation; as, to run the world back to its first original.
14. I would
gladly understand the formation of a soul, and run it up to its
punctum saliens.
15. To
push; to thrust; as, to run the hand into the
pocket or the
bosom; to run a
nail into the foot.
16. To ascertain and mark by metes and bounds; as, to run a line between towns or states.
17. To cause to
ply; to maintain in running or passing; as, to run a stage
coach from London to Bristol; to run a line of packets from New
Haven to New York.
18. To cause to pass; as, to run a rope through a block.
19. To found; to shape, form or make in a
mold; to cast; as, to run
buttons or balls.
21. In navigation, to run down a vessel, is to run against her, end on, and sink her.
22. To
crush; to overthrow; to overbear.
23. Religion is run down by the
license of these times.
26. To run over, to recount in a
cursory manner; to
narrate hastily; as, to run over the particulars of a story.
29. To run out, to thrust or
push out; to extend.
30. To waste; to
exhaust; as, to run out an estate.
31. To run through, to
expend; to waste; as, to run through an estate.
32. To run up, to increase; to
enlarge by additions. A man who takes goods on credit, is apt to run up his account to a large sum before he is aware of it.
33. To thrust up, as any thing long and slender.
Run
[Adjective]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
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.
2. To go swiftly; to pass at a swift
pace; to
hasten.
3. To
flee, as from fear or danger.
4. To
steal off; to depart secretly.
5. To
contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a
candidate; as, to run for Congress.
6. 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.
7. To
exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle.
8. To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as, to run from one subject to another.
9. To
discuss; to continue to think or speak about something; -- with on.
10. To make numerous
drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on.
11. To
creep, as serpents.
12. 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.
13. To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread.
15. To turn, as a wheel; to
revolve on an axis or
pivot; as, a wheel runs swiftly round.
16. 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.
17. To extend; to reach; as, the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
18. To go back and forth from place to place; to
ply; as, the stage runs between the
hotel and the station.
19. To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
20. 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.
21. To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
22. To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
23. To be popularly known; to be generally received.
24. To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
25. To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to
incline.
26. To spread and
blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
27. 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.
28. To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
29. To discharge
pus or other matter; as, an
ulcer runs.
30. To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
31. To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing
closehauled; -- said of vessels.
32. 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.
33. 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.
34. Melted, or made from
molten material; cast in a
mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead.
Run
[Noun]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
1. The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
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.
5. State of being current; currency; popularity.
6. Continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights.
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.
9. The
aftermost part of a vessel's
hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter.
10. The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles.
11. A voyage; as, a run to China.
13. 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.
14. A
roulade, or series of running tones.
15. The greatest degree of swiftness in marching. It is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed.
17. 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.
18. A pair or set of millstones.
Run
[Verb intransitive]
Webster's Dictionary 1913
2. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a
nail into the foot.
3. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
4. To
fuse; to shape; to
mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
5. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
7. To go through or
accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
8. To cause to stand as a
candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
9. 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.
11. To discharge; to
emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or
faucet runs hot water.
12. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
13. To conduct; to
manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a
hotel.
15. 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.
16. To
migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to
ascend a river in order to
spawn.
