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...

Inlet :: Inlet (n.) A bay or recess,as in the shore of a sea, lake, or large river; a narrow strip of water running into the land or between islands..

Runaway :: Runaway (a.) Accomplished by running away or elopement, or during flight; as, a runaway marriage..

Laving :: Laving (v. i.) Issuing continually from the earth; running; flowing; as, a living spring; -- opposed to stagnant..

Flight :: Flight (n.) The act of fleeing; the act of running away, to escape or expected evil; hasty departure..

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..

Hourglass :: Hourglass (n.) An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury occupies an hour in running through a small aperture unto the lower..

Running :: Running (n.) The discharge from an ulcer or other sore.

Rack :: Rack (a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes; -- called also rack block. Also, a frame to hold shot..

Looping :: Looping (n.) The running together of the matter of an ore into a mass, when the ore is only heated for calcination..

Dog-legged :: dog-legged (a.) Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole..

Counter-courant :: Counter-courant (a.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

Race :: Race (n.) Hence: The act or process of running in competition; a contest of speed in any way, as in running, riding, driving, skating, rowing, sailing; in the plural, usually, a meeting for contests in the running of horses; as, he attended the races..

Water Course :: Water course () A running stream of water having a bed and banks; the easement one may have in the flowing of such a stream in its accustomed course. A water course may be sometimes dry.

Manger :: Manger (n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it..

Lasso :: Lasso (n.) A rope or long thong of leather with, a running noose, used for catching horses, cattle, etc..

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

Countercurrent :: Countercurrent (a.) Running in an opposite direction.

Median :: Median (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove..

Race :: Race (n.) Esp., swift progress; rapid course; a running..

Lugger :: Lugger (n.) A small vessel having two or three masts, and a running bowsprit, and carrying lugsails. See Illustration in Appendix..

Random Fonts

Most Popular