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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Run \Run\, v. i. [imp. {Ran}or {Run}; p. p. {Run}; p. pr & vb n. {Running}.] [OE. rinnen, rennen (imp. ran, p. p. runnen, ronnen). AS rinnan to flow (imp. ran, p. p. gerunnen), and iernan irnan, to run (imp. orn, arn, earn, p. p. urnen); akin to D. runnen, rennen, OS & OHG. rinnan, G. rinnen, rennen, Icel. renna, rinna, Sw rinna, r["a]nna, Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr ? to stir up rouse, Skr. ? (cf. {Origin}), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. {Rival}). [root]11. Cf {Ember}, a., {Rennet}.] 1. To move proceed, advance, pass, go come etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog. Specifically: 2. Of voluntary or personal action: a To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten. ``Ha, ha the fox!'' and after him they ran. --Chaucer. b To flee, as from fear or danger. As from a bear a man would run for life. --Shak. c To steal off to depart secretly. My conscience will serve me to run from this jew. --Shak. d To contend in a race; hence to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as to run for Congress. Know ye not that they which run in a race run all but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain. --1 Cor. ix 24. e To pass from one state or condition to another; to come into a certain condition; -- often with in or into as to run into evil practices; to run in debt. Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted? --Addison. f To exert continuous activity; to proceed; as to run through life; to run in a circle. g To pass or go quickly in thought or conversation; as to run from one subject to another. Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject. --Addison. h To discuss; to continue to think or speak about something -- with on i To make numerous drafts or demands for payment, as upon a bank; -- with on j To creep, as serpents. 3. Of involuntary motion: a To flow, as a liquid; to ascend or descend; to course; as rivers run to the sea; sap runs up in the spring; her blood ran cold. b To proceed along a surface; to extend; to spread. The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix 23. c To become fluid; to melt; to fuse. As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run. --Addison. Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. --Woodward. d To turn, as a wheel; to revolve on an axis or pivot; as a wheel runs swiftly round. e To travel; to make progress; to be moved by mechanical means to go as the steamboat runs regularly to Albany; the train runs to Chicago. f To extend; to reach; as the road runs from Philadelphia to New York; the memory of man runneth not to the contrary. She saw with joy the line immortal run, Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. --Pope. g To go back and forth from place to place to ply; as the stage runs between the hotel and the station. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ran \Ran\, n. [As. r[=a]n.] Open robbery. [Obs.] --Lambarde. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ran \Ran\, n. (Naut.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Ran \Ran\, imp. of {Run}.
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