Definition of run

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Run (n.) The distance sailed by a ship; as, a good run; a run of fifty miles..

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Run :: Run (a.) To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as, to run through life; to run in a circle..
Shipwreck :: Shipwreck (v. t.) To destroy, as a ship at sea, by running ashore or on rocks or sandbanks, or by the force of wind and waves in a tempest..
Citigradae :: Citigradae (n. pl.) A suborder of Arachnoidea, including the European tarantula and the wolf spiders (Lycosidae) and their allies, which capture their prey by rapidly running and jumping. See Wolf spider..
Spinner :: Spinnaker (n.) A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when running before the wind..
Warranty :: Warranty (n.) A covenant real, whereby the grantor of an estate of freehold and his heirs were bound to warrant and defend the title, and, in case of eviction by title paramount, to yield other lands of equal value in recompense. This warranty has long singe become obsolete, and its place supplied by personal covenants for title. Among these is the covenant of warranty, which runs with the land, and is in the nature of a real covenant..
Stave :: Stave (n.) To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron; as, to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run..
Acrolith :: Acrolith (n.) A statue whose extremities are of stone, the trunk being generally of wood..
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..
Scrunch :: Scrunch (v. t. & v. i.) To scranch; to crunch.
Pigfish :: Pigfish (n.) Any one of several species of salt-water grunts; -- called also hogfish.
Brunette :: Brunette (a.) Having a dark tint.
Interungulate :: Interungulate (a.) Between ungulae; as, interungular glands..
Stick :: Stick (n.) To run or plane (moldings) in a machine, in contradistinction to working them by hand. Such moldings are said to be stuck..
Sprit :: Sprinter (n.) One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a champion sprinter..
Pruner :: Pruner (n.) Any one of several species of beetles whose larvae gnaw the branches of trees so as to cause them to fall, especially the American oak pruner (Asemum moestum), whose larva eats the pith of oak branches, and when mature gnaws a circular furrow on the inside nearly to the bark. When the branches fall each contains a pupa..
Plagal :: Plagal (a.) Having a scale running from the dominant to its octave; -- said of certain old church modes or tunes, as opposed to those called authentic, which ran from the tonic to its octave..
Pruniferous :: Pruniferous (a.) Bearing plums.
Blackthorn :: Blackthorn (n.) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe..
Sweep :: Sweep (n.) The mold of a ship when she begins to curve in at the rungheads; any part of a ship shaped in a segment of a circle.
Gerundial :: Gerundial (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a gerund; as, a gerundial use..
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