Definition of running

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Running (a.) Flowing; easy; cursive; as, a running hand..

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Tormentor :: Tormentor (n.) An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels..
Appulse :: Appulse (n.) A driving or running towards; approach; impulse; also, the act of striking against..
Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream..
Running :: Running (a.) Continuous; keeping along step by step; as, he stated the facts with a running explanation..
Diagonal :: Diagonal (n.) A member, in a framed structure, running obliquely across a panel..
Xystus :: Xystus (n.) A long and open portico, for athletic exercises, as wrestling, running, etc., for use in winter or in stormy weather..
Step :: Step (v. i.) The space passed over by one movement of the foot in walking or running; as, one step is generally about three feet, but may be more or less. Used also figuratively of any kind of progress; as, he improved step by step, or by steps..
Purling :: Purling (n.) The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also, the murmur it makes in so doing..
Pound :: Pound (v. i.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds..
Prone :: Prone (a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Lugger :: Lugger (n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix..
Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..
Inrunning :: Inrunning (n.) The act or the place of entrance; an inlet.
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture..
Wind-broken :: Wind-broken (a.) Having the power of breathing impaired by the rupture, dilatation, or running together of air cells of the lungs, so that while the inspiration is by one effort, the expiration is by two; affected with pulmonary emphysema or with heaves; -- said of a horse..
Bicostate :: Bicostate (a.) Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf..
Ripple :: Ripple (v. i.) To become fretted or dimpled on the surface, as water when agitated or running over a rough bottom; to be covered with small waves or undulations, as a field of grain..
Concourse :: Concourse (n.) A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence..
Hurkaru :: Hurkaru (n.) In India, a running footman; a messenger..
Buddle :: Buddle (n.) An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions..
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