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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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