Definition of run

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Run (v. i.) To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven..

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Banyan :: Banyan (n.) A tree of the same genus as the common fig, and called the Indian fig (Ficus Indica), whose branches send shoots to the ground, which take root and become additional trunks, until it may be the tree covers some acres of ground and is able to shelter thousands of men..
Alitrunk :: Alitrunk (n.) The segment of the body of an insect to which the wings are attached; the thorax.
Grunter :: Grunter (n.) One of several American marine fishes. See Sea robin, and Grunt, n., 2..
Ground :: Ground (v. i.) To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed; as, the ship grounded on the bar..
Crunodal :: Crunodal (a.) Possessing, or characterized by, a crunode; -- used of curves..
Omnibus :: Omnibus (n.) A long four-wheeled carriage, having seats for many people; especially, one with seats running lengthwise, used in conveying passengers short distances..
Lid :: Lid (n.) That which covers the opening of a vessel or box, etc.; a movable cover; as, the lid of a chest or trunk..
-art :: -art () The termination of many English words; as, coward, reynard, drunkard, mostly from the French, in which language this ending is of German origin, being orig. the same word as English hard. It usually has the sense of one who has to a high or excessive degree the quality expressed by the root; as, braggart, sluggard..
Controller :: Controller (n.) An iron block, usually bolted to a ship's deck, for controlling the running out of a chain cable. The links of the cable tend to drop into hollows in the block, and thus hold fast until disengaged..
Right-running :: Right-running (a.) Straight; direct.
Shred :: Shred (n.) To lop; to prune; to trim.
Lock :: Lock (n.) Anything that fastens; specifically, a fastening, as for a door, a lid, a trunk, a drawer, and the like, in which a bolt is moved by a key so as to hold or to release the thing fastened..
Wearish :: Wearish (a.) Weak; withered; shrunk.
Running :: Running (a.) Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer.
Swallowtail :: Swallowfish (n.) The European sapphirine gurnard (Trigla hirundo). It has large pectoral fins.
Prodrome :: Prodrome (n.) A forerunner; a precursor.
Strophiole :: Strophiolated (a.) Furnished with a strophiole, or caruncle, or that which resembles it..
Sow :: Sow (n.) The bar of metal which remains in such a runner.
Peter :: Peter (v. i.) To become exhausted; to run out; to fail; -- used generally with out; as, that mine has petered out..
Sandglass :: Sandglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
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