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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Into \In"to\, prep. [In + to.] To the inside of within. It is used in a variety of applications. 1. Expressing entrance, or a passing from the outside of a thing to its interior parts -- following verbs expressing motion; as come into the house; go into the church; one stream falls or runs into another; water enters into the fine vessels of plants. 2. Expressing penetration beyond the outside or surface, or access to the inside, or contents; as to look into a letter or book; to look into an apartment. 3. Indicating insertion; as to infuse more spirit or animation into a composition. 4. Denoting inclusion; as put these ideas into other words 5. Indicating the passing of a thing from one form condition, or state to another; as compound substances may be resolved into others which are more simple; ice is convertible into water, and water into vapor; men are more easily drawn than forced into compliance; we may reduce many distinct substances into one mass; men are led by evidence into belief of truth, and are often enticed into the commission of crimes'into; she burst into tears; children are sometimes frightened into fits; all persons are liable to be seduced into error and folly. Note: Compare {In}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: b To decline in condition; as to run down in health. {To run down a coast}, to sail along it {To run for an office}, to stand as a candidate for an office. {To run in} or {into}. a To enter to step in b To come in collision with {To run in trust}, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.] {To run in with}. a To close to comply; to agree with [R.] --T. Baker. b (Naut.) To make toward; to near to sail close to as to run in with the land. {To run mad}, {To run mad after} or {on}. See under {Mad}. {To run on}. a To be continued; as their accounts had run on for a year or two without a settlement. b To talk incessantly. c To continue a course. d To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse with sarcasm; to bear hard on e (Print.) To be continued in the same lines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph. {To run out}. a To come to an end to expire; as the lease runs out at Michaelmas. b To extend; to spread. ``Insectile animals . . . run all out into legs.'' --Hammond. c To expatiate; as to run out into beautiful digressions. d To be wasted or exhausted; to become poor; to become extinct; as an estate managed without economy will soon run out And had her stock been less no doubt She must have long ago run out --Dryden. {To run over}. a To overflow; as a cup runs over or the liquor runs over b To go over examine, or rehearse cursorily. c To ride or drive over as to run over a child. {To run riot}, to go to excess. {To run through}. a To go through hastily; as to run through a book. b To spend wastefully; as to run through an estate. {To run to seed}, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed, as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to lose vital force, as the body or mind. {To run up}, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as accounts of goods credited run up very fast But these having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. --Sir W. Scott. {To run with}. a To be drenched with so that streams flow; as the streets ran with blood. b To flow while charged with some foreign substance. ``Its rivers ran with gold.'' --J. H. Newman. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sound \Sound\, v. i. [OE. sounen, sownen, OF soner, suner, F. sonner, from L. sonare. See {Sound} a noise.] 1. To make a noise; to utter a voice; to make an impulse of the air that shall strike the organs of hearing with a perceptible effect. ``And first taught speaking trumpets how to sound.'' --Dryden. How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues! --Shak. 2. To be conveyed in sound; to be spread or published; to convey intelligence by sound. From you sounded out the word of the Lord. --1 Thess. i. 8. 3. To make or convey a certain impression, or to have a certain import, when heard; hence to seem; to appear; as this reproof sounds harsh; the story sounds like an invention. Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair? --Shak. {To sound in} or {into}, to tend to to partake of the nature of to be consonant with [Obs., except in the phrase To sound in damages, below.] Soun[d]ing in moral virtue was his speech. --Chaucer. {To sound in damages} (Law), to have the essential quality of damages. This is said of an action brought, not for the recovery of a specific thing as replevin, etc., but for damages only, as trespass, and the like From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Thrust \Thrust\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thrust}; p. pr & vb n. {Thrusting}.] [OE. ?rusten, ?risten, ?resten, Icel. ?r?st? to thrust, press, force, compel; perhaps akin to E. threat.] 1. To push or drive with force; to drive, force, or impel; to shove; as to thrust anything with the hand or foot, or with an instrument. Into a dungeon thrust, to work with slaves. --Milton. 2. To stab; to pierce; -- usually with through {To thrust away} or {from}, to push away to reject. {To thrust in}, to push or drive in {To thrust off}, to push away {To thrust on}, to impel; to urge. {To thrust one's self in} or {into}, to obtrude upon to intrude, as into a room to enter (a place) where one is not invited or not welcome. {To thrust out}, to drive out or away to expel. {To thrust through}, to pierce; to stab. ``I am eight times thrust through the doublet.'' --Shak. {To thrust together}, to compress. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eat \Eat\, v. i. 1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. --2 Sam. ix 13. 2. To taste or relish; as it eats like tender beef. 3. To make one's way slowly. {To eat}, {To eat in} or {into}, to make way by corrosion; to gnaw; to consume. ``A sword laid by which eats into itself.'' --Byron. {To eat to windward} (Naut.), to keep the course when closehauled with but little steering; -- said of a vessel.
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