[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

run \run\ ru^n, v. i. imp. ran ra^n 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, raumnna,
   dan. rinde, rende, goth. rinnan, and perh. to l. oriri to
   rise, gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, skr. .r cf.
   origin, or perh. to l. rivus brook cf. rival.
   root11. 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: 
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   2. of voluntary or personal action:
      a to go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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                "ha, ha, the fox" and after him they ran.
                                                  --chaucer.
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      b to flee, as from fear or danger.
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                as from a bear a man would run for life. --shak.
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      c to steal off; to depart secretly.
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      d to contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest;
          to become a candidate; as, to run for congress.
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                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.
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      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.
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                have i not cause to rave and beat my breast, to
                rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
                                                  --addison.
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      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.
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                virgil, in his first georgic, has run into a set
                of precepts foreign to his subject. --addison.
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      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.
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   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.
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                the fire ran along upon the ground. --ex. ix.
                                                  23.
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      c to become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
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                as wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
                                                  --addison.
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                sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
                                                  --woodward.
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      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.
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                she saw with joy the line immortal run,
                each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
                                                  --pope.
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      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.
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                as fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
                in most part of our lives that it ran much
                faster.                           --addison.
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      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.
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                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.
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      j to have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
          and west.
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                where the generally allowed practice runs
                counter to it.                    --locke.
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                little is the wisdom, where the flight
                so runs against all reason.       --shak.
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      k to be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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                the king's ordinary style runneth, "our
                sovereign lord the king."         --bp.
                                                  sanderson.
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      l to be popularly known; to be generally received.
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                men gave them their own names, by which they run
                a great while in rome.            --sir w.
                                                  temple.
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                neither was he ignorant what report ran of
                himself.                          --knolles.
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      m to have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
          up rapidly.
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                if the richness of the ground cause turnips to
                run to leaves.                    --mortimer.
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      n to tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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                a man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
                                                  --bacon.
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                temperate climates run into moderate
                governments.                      --swift.
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      o to spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
          in washing.
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                in the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
                distinguished, but near the borders they run
                into one another.                 --i. watts.
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      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.
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                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.
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      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.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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                and had her stock been less, no doubt
                she must have long ago run out.   --dryden.
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   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.
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            but these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
            run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
                                                  --sir w.
                                                  scott.
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   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
see also:
ran run running origin rival ember 
rennet as things run to let run to run after to run away 
to run away with to run down to run down a coast to run for an office to run in 
to run into to run in trust to run in with to run mad to run mad after 
to run mad on mad to run on to run out to run over 
to run riot to run through to run to seed to run up to run with 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

running \run"ning\, n.
   the act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running
   was slow.
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   2. that which runs or flows; the quantity of a liquid which
      flows in a certain time or during a certain operation; as,
      the first running of a still.
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   3. the discharge from an ulcer or other sore.
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   at long running, in the long run. obs. --jer. taylor.
      1913 webster
see also:
at long running 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

running \run"ning\, a.
   1. moving or advancing by running. specifically, of a horse:
      a having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
      b trained and kept for running races; as, a running
          horse. --law.
          1913 webster

   2. 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.
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   3. flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand.
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   4. continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the
      facts with a running explanation. "a running conquest."
      --milton.
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            what are art and science if not a running commentary
            on nature?                            --hare.
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   5. bot. extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem;
      as, a running vine.
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   6. med. discharging pus; as, a running sore.
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   running block mech., a block in an arrangement of pulleys
      which rises or sinks with the weight which is raised or
      lowered.

   running board, a narrow platform extending along the side
      of a locomotive.
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see also:
running block running board 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

running
     adj 1: moving quickly on foot; "heard running footsteps behind him"
            syn: runninga
     2: of fluids moving or issuing in a stream; "a mountain
        stream with freely running water"; "hovels without running
        water" syn: runninga ant: standinga
     3: continually repeated over a period of time; "a running joke
        among us" syn: runninga
     4: of advancing the ball by running; "the team's running plays
        worked better than its pass plays" syn: runninga
        ant: passinga
     5: executed or initiated by running; "running plays worked
        better than pass plays"; "took a running jump"; "a running
        start" syn: runninga ant: standinga
     6: measured lengthwise; "cost of lumber per running foot" syn:
         linear, runninga
     7: of e.g. a machine performing or capable of performing; "in
        running or working order"; "a functional set of brakes"
        syn: runninga, operative, functional, workinga
     n 1: american football a play in which a player runs with the
          ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the
          coach put great emphasis on running" syn: run, running
          play, running game
     2: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
        broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" syn: run
     3: the state of being in operation; "the engine is running
        smoothly"
     4: the act of administering or being in charge of something;
        "he has responsibility for the running of two companies at
        the same time"
     5: the act of participating in an athletic competition
        involving running on a track syn: track
see also:
runninga standinga passinga linear operative functional 
workinga run running play running game track 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

run
     n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases
          safely; "the yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the
          9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" syn: tally
     2: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials
        the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called
        each flip of the coin a new trial" syn: test, trial
     3: a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile
        run" syn: footrace, foot race
     4: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck";
        "nicklaus had a run of birdies" syn: streak
     5: american football a play in which a player runs with the
        ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the
        coach put great emphasis on running" syn: running, running
        play, running game
     6: a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time"
     7: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
        broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" syn: running
     8: the continuous period of time during which something a
        machine or a factory operates or continues in operation;
        "the assembly line was on a 12-hour run"
     9: unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house"
     10: the production achieved during a continuous period of
         operation of a machine or factory etc.; "a daily run of
         100,000 gallons of paint"
     11: a small stream syn: rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet
     12: a race between candidates for elective office; "i managed
         his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a
         senate run" syn: political campaign, campaign
     13: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her
         stocking" syn: ladder, ravel
     14: the pouring forth of a fluid syn: discharge, outpouring
     15: an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run
         on broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"
     16: a short trip; "take a run into town"
     v 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground
          at any given time; "don't run--you'll be out of breath";
          "the children ran to the store"
     2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "if you see this
        man, run"; "the burglars escaped before the police showed
        up" syn: scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail
        it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape,
         fly the coop, break away
     3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
        extend between two points or beyond a certain point;
        "service runs all the way to cranbury"; "his knowledge
        doesn't go very far"; "my memory extends back to my fourth
        year of life"; "the facts extend beyond a consideration of
        her personal assets" syn: go, pass, lead, extend
     4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "she is
        running a relief operation in the sudan" syn: operate
     5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as
        follows"; "as the saying goes..." syn: go
     6: move along, of liquids; "water flowed into the cave"; "the
        missouri feeds into the mississippi" syn: flow, feed,
         course
     7: perform as expected when applied; "the washing machine won't
        go unless it's plugged in"; "does this old car still run
        well?"; "this old radio doesn't work anymore" syn: function,
         work, operate, go ant: malfunction
     8: change or be different within limits; "estimates for the
        losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion";
        "interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "the
        instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "my students
        range from very bright to dull" syn: range
     9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "who's
        running for treasurer this year?" syn: campaign
     10: cause to emit recorded sounds; "they ran the tapes over and
         over again"; "can you play my favorite record?" syn: play
     11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if
         running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these
         people running around in the building?"; "she runs around
         telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run
         free"
     12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be
         inclined; "she tends to be nervous before her lectures";
         "these dresses run small"; "he inclined to corpulence"
         syn: tend, be given, lean, incline
     13: carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a
         machine; "run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the
         mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" syn: execute
     14: be operating, running or functioning; "the car is still
         running--turn it off" ant: idle
     15: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue";
         "run riot"
     16: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"
     17: be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a
         risk"
     18: continue to exist; "these stories die hard"; "the legend of
         elvis endures" syn: prevail, persist, die hard, endure
     19: occur persistently; "musical talent runs in the family"
     20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "we ran the
         ad three times"; "this paper carries a restaurant
         review"; "all major networks carried the press
         conference" syn: carry
     21: carry out; "run an errand"
     22: guide or pass over something; "he ran his eyes over her
         body"; "she ran her fingers along the carved figurine";
         "he drew her hair through his fingers" syn: guide, draw,
          pass
     23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "run the wire
         behind the cabinet" syn: lead
     24: make without a miss
     25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor syn: black
         market
     26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs"
     27: be diffused; "these dyes and colors are guaranteed not to
         run" syn: bleed
     28: sail before the wind
     29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "she ran 10 miles
         that day"
     30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "the film
         runs 5 hours" syn: run for
     31: set animals loose to graze
     32: keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls ot produce
         offspring" syn: consort
     33: run with the ball; in such sports as football
     34: travel rapidly, by any unspecified means; "run to the
         store"; "she always runs to italy, because she has a
         lover there"
     35: travel a route regularly; "ships ply the waters near the
         coast" syn: ply
     36: pursue for food or sport as of wild animals; "goering
         often hunted wild boars in poland"; "the dogs are running
         deer"; "the duke hunted in these woods" syn: hunt, hunt
         down, track down
     37: compete in a race; "he is running the marathon this year";
         "let's race and see who gets there first" syn: race
     38: progress by being changed; "the speech has to go through
         several more drafts"; "run through your presentation
         before the meeting" syn: move, go
     39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid
         state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down
         gold"; "the wax melted in the sun" syn: melt, melt
         down
     40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "her nylons were
         running" syn: ladder
     41: become undone; "the sweater unraveled" syn: unravel
     also: running, ran
see also:
tally test trial footrace foot race streak 
running running play running game rivulet rill 
runnel streamlet political campaign campaign ladder 
ravel discharge outpouring scarper turn tail 
lam run away hightail it bunk head for the hills 
take to the woods escape fly the coop break away go 
pass lead extend operate flow 
feed course function work malfunction 
range play tend be given lean 
incline execute idle prevail persist 
die hard endure carry guide draw 
black market bleed run for consort ply 
hunt hunt down track down race move 
melt melt down unravel ran 

[6] : WordNet (r) 2.0

running
     see run
see also:
run 

[7] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

374 moby thesaurus words for "running":
   acting, action, active, activity, actual, actuation, affluent,
   agency, agile, alive, articulated, as is, ascending, at work,
   authority, autograph, autographic, average, axial, back,
   back-flowing, backward, being, besetting, breakneck, calligraphic,
   candidacy, candidature, care, catenated, ceaseless, charge,
   chirographic, colliquation, command, common, competition,
   concatenated, conduct, confluent, connected, consecutively,
   constant, contemporaneous, contemporary, contest, continual,
   continually, continued, continuing, continuous, continuously,
   control, coursing, current, cursive, cyclical, dashing,
   decoagulation, decurrent, defluent, deliquescence, deliquium,
   descending, diffluent, direct, direction, dissolution, dissolving,
   dominant, double-quick, down-trending, downward, drifting, driving,
   dynamic, dynamics, eagle-winged, effortless, endless, engrossed,
   epidemic, event, execution, exercise, existent, existing,
   expeditious, express, extant, fast, featureless, festering, fleet,
   flowing, fluent, fluidification, fluidization, fluxional, fluxive,
   flying, fresh, functional, functioning, fusibility, fusing, fusion,
   galloping, game, gapless, gleet, going, going on, governance,
   government, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric,
   guidance, gulfy, gushing, gyrational, gyratory, hair-trigger,
   hand running, handling, hasty, headlong, holograph, holographic,
   husbandry, hustling, ichor, immanent, immediate, in indian file,
   in a chain, in a line, in a row, in a series, in column,
   in exercise, in file, in force, in hand, in longhand, in operation,
   in play, in practice, in process, in shorthand, in single file,
   in succession, in the works, in turn, in writing, inaction,
   incessant, inscribed, instant, intendance, interminable, italic,
   italicized, joined, jointless, kinematics, kinesipathy, kinesis,
   kinesitherapy, kinetics, latest, leaching, lead, leading,
   leukorrhea, light of heel, light-footed, linked, liquation,
   liquefaction, liquescence, liquescency, live, lively, lixiviation,
   longhand, management, managery, managing, manipulation, manuscript,
   match, matter, mattering, mazy, meandering, meet, melting,
   mercurial, mobilization, modern, monotonous, motion, motivation,
   mounting, move, movement, moving, never-ending, new, night and day,
   nimble, nimble-footed, nonstop, normal, occupation, on foot,
   on paper, on the fire, ongoing, operancy, operating, operation,
   operational, operative, ordering, ordinary, pandemic, passing,
   peccant humor, penciled, penned, percolation, perennial,
   performance, performing, periodic, perpetual, pilotage, plunging,
   popular, pouring, practice, precipitate, predominant,
   predominating, present, present-age, present-day, present-time,
   prevailing, prevalent, printed, profluent, progressive,
   progressively, prompt, purulence, pus, quick, quick as lightning,
   quick as thought, race, racing, rampant, rankling, rapid, reckless,
   recurrent, reflowing, refluent, regnant, regressive, regulation,
   reigning, repetitive, responsibility, restlessness, retrogressive,
   rife, rising, rotary, rotational, rotatory, round-the-clock,
   routine, ruling, running for office, rushing, sanies, scriptorial,
   scriptural, seamless, sequentially, serially, seriatim, serpentine,
   serried, shorthand, sideward, sinking, sluggish, smooth, snappy,
   soaring, solubilization, solution, spanking, speedy, stable,
   standard, standing, standing for office, steady, steerage,
   steering, step by step, stereotyped, stir, stirring, straight,
   streaming, stylographic, successively, superintendence,
   superintendency, supervision, suppuration, surging, surgy,
   sustained, swift, that be, that is, thaw, thawing, the conn,
   the helm, the wheel, thermoplasticity, tidal, topical, tournament,
   turn about, twenty-four-hour, unbroken, unceasing, unclotting,
   undifferentiated, unending, uniform, unintermitted, unintermittent,
   unintermitting, uninterrupted, uninterruptedly, unrelieved,
   unremitting, unrest, unstopped, up-to-date, up-to-the-minute,
   up-trending, upward, usual, velocity, vortical, winged, work,
   working, workings, written

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