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- English Word Run Definition To be popularly known; to be generally received.
- English Word Run Definition To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run up rapidly.
- English Word Run Definition To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
- English Word Run Definition To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run in washing.
- English Word Run Definition To have a legal course; to be attached; to continue in force, effect, or operation; to follow; to go in company; as, certain covenants run with the land.
- English Word Run Definition To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a note has thirty days to run.
- English Word Run Definition To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
- English Word Run Definition To be played on the stage a number of successive days or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
- English Word Run Definition To sail before the wind, in distinction from reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
- English Word Run Definition Specifically, of a horse: To move rapidly in a gait in which each leg acts in turn as a propeller and a supporter, and in which for an instant all the limbs are gathered in the air under the body.
- English Word Run Definition To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instant in each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- so distinguished from walking in athletic competition.
- English Word Run Definition To cause to run (in the various senses of Run, v. i.); as, to run a horse; to run a stage; to run a machine; to run a rope through a block.
- English Word Run Definition To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.
- English Word Run Definition To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or through the body; to run a nail into the foot.
- English Word Run Definition To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.
- English Word Run Definition To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets, and the like.
- English Word Run Definition To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to determine; as, to run a line.
- English Word Run Definition To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.
- English Word Run Definition To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race; to run a certain career.
- English Word Run Definition To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support for office; as, to run some one for Congress.
- English Word Run Definition To encounter or incur, as a danger or risk; as, to run the risk of losing one's life. See To run the chances, below.
- English Word Run Definition To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.
- English Word Run Definition To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.
- English Word Run Definition To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing; as, the rivers ran blood.
- English Word Run Definition To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory or a hotel.
- English Word Run Definition To tease with sarcasms and ridicule.
- English Word Run Definition To sew, as a seam, by passing the needle through material in a continuous line, generally taking a series of stitches on the needle at the same time.
- English Word Run Definition To migrate or move in schools; -- said of fish; esp., to ascend a river in order to spawn.
- English Word Run Definition The act of running; as, a long run; a good run; a quick run; to go on the run.
- English Word Run Definition A small stream; a brook; a creek.