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run | 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 | to put at hazard; to venture; to risk. |
run | to discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water. |
run | to be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood. |
run | to conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel. |
run | to tease with sarcasms and ridicule. |
run | 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 | to migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn. |
run | the act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run. |
run | a small stream; a brook; a creek. |
run | 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 | a course; a series; that which continues in a certain course or series; as, a run of good or bad luck. |
run | state of being current; currency; popularity. |
run | continued repetition on the stage; -- said of a play; as, to have a run of a hundred successive nights. |
run | a continuing urgent demand; especially, a pressure on a bank or treasury for payment of its notes. |
run | a range or extent of ground for feeding stock; as, a sheep run. |
run | the aftermost part of a vessel's hull where it narrows toward the stern, under the quarter. |
run | the distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles. |
run | a voyage; as, a run to china. |
run | a pleasure excursion; a trip. |
run | 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 | a roulade, or series of running tones. |
run | the greatest degree of swiftness in marching. it is executed upon the same principles as the double-quick, but with greater speed. |
run | 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 | 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 | a pair or set of millstones. |
run | melted, or made from molten material; cast in a mold; as, run butter; run iron or lead. |
run | smuggled; as, run goods. |
runagate | a fugitive; a vagabond; an apostate; a renegade. see renegade. |
runaway | one who, or that which, flees from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; a fugitive. |
runaway | the act of running away, esp. of a horse or teams; as, there was a runaway yesterday. |
runaway | running away; fleeing from danger, duty, restraint, etc.; as, runaway soldiers; a runaway horse. |
runaway | accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage. |
runaway | won by a long lead; as, a runaway victory. |
runaway | very successful; accomplishing success quickly; as, a runaway bestseller. |
runcation | a weeding. |
runch | the wild radish. |
runcinate | pinnately cut with the lobes pointing downwards, as the leaf of the dandelion. |
rundel | a moat with water in it; also, a small stream; a runlet. |
rundel | a circle. |
rundle | a round; a step of a ladder; a rung. |
rundle | a ball. |
rundle | something which rotates about an axis, as a wheel, or the drum of a capstan. |
rundle | one of the pins or trundles of a lantern wheel. |
rundlet | a small barrel of no certain dimensions. it may contain from 3 to 20 gallons, but it usually holds about 14/ gallons. |
rune | 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 | old norse poetry expressed in runes. |
runer | a bard, or learned man, among the ancient goths. |
rung | imp. & p. p. of ring. |
rung | a floor timber in a ship. |
rung | one of the rounds of a ladder. |
rung | one of the stakes of a cart; a spar; a heavy staff. |
rung | 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 | the upper end of a floor timber in a ship. |
runic | of or pertaining to a rune, to runes, or to the norsemen; as, runic verses; runic letters; runic names; runic rhyme. |
runlet | a little run or stream; a streamlet; a brook. |
runlet | same as rundlet. |
runnel | a rivulet or small brook. |
runner | one who, or that which, runs; a racer. |
runner | a detective. |
runner | a messenger. |
runner | a smuggler. |
runner | one employed to solicit patronage, as for a steamboat, hotel, shop, etc. |
runner | 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 | the rotating stone of a set of millstones. |
runner | a rope rove through a block and used to increase the mechanical power of a tackle. |
runner | 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 | 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 | a trough or channel for leading molten metal from a furnace to a ladle, mold, or pig bed. |
runner | the movable piece to which the ribs of an umbrella are attached. |
runner | a food fish of florida and the west indies; -- called also skipjack, shoemaker, and yellowtail. the name alludes to its rapid successive leaps from the water. |
runner | any cursorial bird. |
runner | a movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone. |
runner | a tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding. |
runnet | see rennet. |
running | moving or advancing by running. |
running | having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. |
running | trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse. |
running | 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 | flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand. |
running | continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation. |
running | extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. |
running | discharging pus; as, a running sore. |
running | the act of one who, or of that which runs; as, the running was slow. |
running | 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. |
running | the discharge from an ulcer or other sore. |
runningly | in a running manner. |
runnion | see ronion. |
runology | the science of runes. |
runround | a felon or whitlow. |
runt | any animal which is unusually small, as compared with others of its kind; -- applied particularly to domestic animals. |
runt | a variety of domestic pigeon, related to the barb and carrier. |
runt | a dwarf; also, a mean, despicable, boorish person; -- used opprobriously. |
runt | the dead stump of a tree; also, the stem of a plant. |
runty | like a runt; diminutive; mean. |
runway | the channel of a stream. |
runway | the beaten path made by deer or other animals in passing to and from their feeding grounds. |
rupee | a silver coin, and money of account, in the east indies. |
rupellary | rocky. |
rupert's | drop a kind of glass drop with a long tail, made by dropping melted glass into water. it is remarkable for bursting into fragments when the surface is scratched or the tail broken; -- so called from prince rupert, nephew of charles i., by whom they were first brought to england. called also rupert's ball, and glass tear. |