Definition of run

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Run (a.) 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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Ren :: Ren (n.) A run.
Trundle :: Trundle (v. i.) To roll, or go by revolving, as a hoop..
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To pass or flow out; to run out, as from any inclosed place..
Flee :: Flee (v. i.) To run away, as from danger or evil; to avoid in an alarmed or cowardly manner; to hasten off; -- usually with from. This is sometimes omitted, making the verb transitive..
Scleroderm :: Scleroderm (n.) One of a tribe of plectognath fishes (Sclerodermi) having the skin covered with hard scales, or plates, as the cowfish and the trunkfish..
Rung :: Rung (n.) One of the rounds of a ladder.
Gruntling :: Gruntling (n.) A young hog.
Seedy :: Seedy (superl.) Abounding with seeds; bearing seeds; having run to seeds.
Ebriety :: Ebriety (n.) Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety.
Cursive :: Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial..
Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..
Whiskeyfied :: Whiskeyfied (a.) Drunk with whisky; intoxicated.
Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..
Course :: Course (v. t.) To run, hunt, or chase after; to follow hard upon; to pursue..
Diapasm :: Diapasm (n.) Powdered aromatic herbs, sometimes made into little balls and strung together..
Circumcursation :: Circumcursation (n.) The act of running about; also, rambling language..
Hamstrung :: Hamstrung (imp. & p. p.) of Hamstrin.
Knot :: Knot (n.) A portion of a branch of a tree that forms a mass of woody fiber running at an angle with the grain of the main stock and making a hard place in the timber. A loose knot is generally the remains of a dead branch of a tree covered by later woody growth.
Stampede :: Stampede (v. i.) To run away in a panic; -- said droves of cattle, horses, etc., also of armies..
Overrun :: Overrun (v. i.) To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, or advertisement, overruns..
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