Definition of run

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Run (v. i.) To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

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Steamboating :: Steamboating (n.) The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats..
Slipes :: Slipes (v.) Sledge runners on which a skip is dragged in a mine.
Elope :: Elope (v. t.) To run away, or escape privately, from the place or station to which one is bound by duty; -- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart..
Run :: Run (a.) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
Bacchanalian :: Bacchanalian (a.) Of or pertaining to the festival of Bacchus; relating to or given to reveling and drunkenness.
Strathspey :: Strath (n.) A valley of considerable size, through which a river runs; a valley bottom; -- often used in composition with the name of the river; as, Strath Spey, Strathdon, Strathmore..
Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To roll or sway suddenly to one side, as a ship or a drunken man..
Against :: Against (prep.) In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time..
Shrunk :: Shrunk (p. p.) of Shrin.
Strophulus :: Strophiole (n.) A crestlike excrescence about the hilum of certain seeds; a caruncle.
Fineer :: Fineer (v. i.) To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit..
Ripple :: Ripple (n.) The fretting or dimpling of the surface, as of running water; little curling waves..
Sarmentaceous :: Sarmentaceous (a.) Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry..
Toper :: Toper (n.) One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; a sot..
Carbuncle :: Carbuncle (n.) A very painful acute local inflammation of the subcutaneous tissue, esp. of the trunk or back of the neck, characterized by brawny hardness of the affected parts, sloughing of the skin and deeper tissues, and marked constitutional depression. It differs from a boil in size, tendency to spread, and the absence of a central core, and is frequently fatal. It is also called anthrax..
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Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Flowing together; meeting in their course; running one into another.
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