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

run \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.
      1913 webster

   2. to pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
      1913 webster

            to run the world back to its first original.
                                                  --south.
      1913 webster

            i would gladly understand the formation of a soul,
            and run it up to its "punctum saliens." --collier.
      1913 webster

   3. to cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or
      through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
      1913 webster

            you run your head into the lion's mouth. --sir w.
                                                  scott.
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            having run his fingers through his hair. --dickens.
      1913 webster

   4. to drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
      1913 webster

            they ran the ship aground.            --acts xxvii.
                                                  41.
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            a talkative person runs himself upon great
            inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's
            secrets.                              --ray.
      1913 webster

            others, accustomed to retired speculations, run
            natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
                                                  --locke.
      1913 webster

   5. to fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets,
      and the like.
      1913 webster

            the purest gold must be run and washed. --felton.
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   6. to cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to
      determine; as, to run a line.
      1913 webster

   7. to cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to
      smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
      1913 webster

            heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of
            running goods.                        --swift.
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   8. to go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race;
      to run a certain career.
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   9. to cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support
      for office; as, to run some one for congress. colloq.
      u.s.
      1913 webster

   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.
       1913 webster

             if we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
                                                  --dan quail
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       pjc

   11. to put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
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             he would himself be in the highlands to receive
             them, and run his fortune with them. --clarendon.
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   12. to discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be
       bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
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             at the base of pompey's statua,
             which all the while ran blood, great caesar fell.
                                                  --shak.
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   13. to be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing;
       as, the rivers ran blood.
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   14. to conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory
       or a hotel. colloq. u.s.
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   15. to tease with sarcasms and ridicule. colloq.
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   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.
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   17. to migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to
       ascend a river in order to spawn.
       1913 webster

   18. golf to strike the ball in such a way as to cause it
       to run along the ground, as when approaching a hole.
       webster 1913 suppl.

   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.
       c to erect hastily, as a building.
           1913 webster
see also:
run to run a blockade to run down to run hard to run into the ground 

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