Definition of running

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Running (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine..

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Silt :: Silt (n.) Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.
Prone :: Prone (a.) Headlong; running downward or headlong.
Stumble :: Stumble (n.) A trip in walking or running.
Circumcursation :: Circumcursation (n.) The act of running about; also, rambling language..
Glass :: Glass (v. t.) A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and hence, the time in which such a vessel is exhausted of its sand..
Homodromous :: Homodromous (a.) Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches..
Sleighing :: Sleighing (n.) The state of the snow or ice which admits of running sleighs.
Cursive :: Cursive (n.) A manuscript, especially of the New Testament, written in small, connected characters or in a running hand; -- opposed to uncial..
Vignette :: Vignette (n.) A running ornament consisting of leaves and tendrils, used in Gothic architecture..
Countercurrent :: Countercurrent (a.) Running in an opposite direction.
Skylarking :: Skylarking (n.) The act of running about the rigging of a vessel in sport; hence, frolicking; scuffing; sporting; carousing..
Justle :: Justle (v. t.) To push; to drive; to force by running against; to jostle.
Run :: Run (n.) The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run..
Kneck :: Kneck (n.) The twisting of a rope or cable, as it is running out..
Irrigate :: Irrigate (v. t.) To water; to wet; to moisten with running or dropping water; to bedew.
Giddy :: Giddy (superl.) Bewildering on account of rapid turning; running round with celerity; gyratory; whirling.
Running :: Running (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse..
Transfluent :: Transfluent (a.) Flowing or running across or through; as, a transfluent stream..
Confluent :: Confluent (a.) Running together or uniting, as pimples or pustules..
Shirr :: Shirr (n.) A series of close parallel runnings which are drawn up so as to make the material between them set full by gatherings; -- called also shirring, and gauging..
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