Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of running is as below...

By-bidder :: By-bidder (n.) One who bids at an auction in behalf of the auctioneer or owner, for the purpose of running up the price of articles..

Carry :: Carry (v. i.) To have earth or frost stick to the feet when running, as a hare..

Buck :: Buck (v. t.) To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water..

Spring :: Spring (v. i.) A crack or fissure in a mast or yard, running obliquely or transversely..

Running :: Running (a.) trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse..

Predella :: Predella (n.) The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or frame at the foot of an altarpiece..

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

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..

Intercurrence :: Intercurrence (n.) A passing or running between; occurrence.

Moss :: Moss (n.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water..

Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A piece of timber running the whole length of a vessel inside the timberheads.

Hound :: Hound (n.) A side bar used to strengthen portions of the running gear of a vehicle.

Coamings :: Coamings (n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges..

Recurrent :: Recurrent (a.) Running back toward its origin; as, a recurrent nerve or artery..

Fake :: Fake (v. t.) To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight form,, to prevent twisting when running out..

Hayward :: Hayward (n.) An officer who is appointed to guard hedges, and to keep cattle from breaking or cropping them, and whose further duty it is to impound animals found running at large..

Cursores :: Cursores (n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.

Hogreeve :: Hogreeve (n.) A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large.

Pedestrianism :: Pedestrianism (n.) The act, art, or practice of a pedestrian; walking or running; traveling or racing on foot..

Sluice :: Sluice (v. t.) To wash with, or in, a stream of water running through a sluice; as, to sluice eart or gold dust in mining..

Random Fonts

Most Popular