Run \Run\ (r[u^]n), v. i. [imp. Ran (r[a^]n) 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[aum]nna,
   Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to
   rise, Gr. 'orny`nai to stir up, rouse, Skr. [.r] (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: 
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   2. Of voluntary or personal action:
      (a) To go swiftly; to pass at a swift pace; to hasten.
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                "Ha, ha, the fox!" and after him they ran.
                                                  --Chaucer.
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      (b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
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                As from a bear a man would run for life. --Shak.
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      (c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
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      (d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest;
          to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
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                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.
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      (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.
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                Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to
                rend my heart with grief and run distracted?
                                                  --Addison.
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      (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.
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                Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set
                of precepts foreign to his subject. --Addison.
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      (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.
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   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.
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                The fire ran along upon the ground. --Ex. ix.
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      (c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
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                As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run.
                                                  --Addison.
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                Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire.
                                                  --Woodward.
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      (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.
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                She saw with joy the line immortal run,
                Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son.
                                                  --Pope.
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      (g) To go back and forth from place to place; to ply; as,
          the stage runs between the hotel and the station.
      (h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.
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                As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
                in most part of our lives that it ran much
                faster.                           --Addison.
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      (i) To continue in operation; to be kept in action or
          motion; as, this engine runs night and day; the mill
          runs six days in the week.
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                When we desire anything, our minds run wholly on
                the good circumstances of it; when it is
                obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones.
                                                  --Swift.
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      (j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
          and west.
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                Where the generally allowed practice runs
                counter to it.                    --Locke.
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                Little is the wisdom, where the flight
                So runs against all reason.       --Shak.
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      (k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
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                The king's ordinary style runneth, "Our
                sovereign lord the king."         --Bp.
                                                  Sanderson.
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      (l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
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                Men gave them their own names, by which they run
                a great while in Rome.            --Sir W.
                                                  Temple.
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                Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
                himself.                          --Knolles.
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      (m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
          up rapidly.
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                If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
                run to leaves.                    --Mortimer.
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      (n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
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                A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
                                                  --Bacon.
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                Temperate climates run into moderate
                governments.                      --Swift.
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      (o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
          in washing.
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                In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
                distinguished, but near the borders they run
                into one another.                 --I. Watts.
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      (p) 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.
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                Customs run only upon our goods imported or
                exported, and that but once for all; whereas
                interest runs as well upon our ships as goods,
                and must be yearly paid.          --Sir J.
                                                  Child.
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      (q) To continue without falling due; to hold good; as, a
          note has thirty days to run.
      (r) To discharge pus or other matter; as, an ulcer runs.
      (s) To be played on the stage a number of successive days
          or nights; as, the piece ran for six months.
      (t) (Naut.) To sail before the wind, in distinction from
          reaching or sailing closehauled; -- said of vessels.
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   4. 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. --Stillman (The Horse
      in Motion).
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   5. (Athletics) 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.
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   As things run, according to the usual order, conditions,
      quality, etc.; on the average; without selection or
      specification.

   To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to
      slacken or loosen.

   To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to
      endeavor to find or obtain; as, to run after similes.
      --Locke.

   To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without
      control or guidance.

   To run away with.
      (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany in escape or
          elopement.
      (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, a horse runs
          away with a carriage.

   To run down.
      (a) To cease to work or operate on account of the
          exhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks,
          watches, etc.
      (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 To run into.
      (a) To enter; to step in.
      (b) To come in collision with.

   To run into To meet, by chance; as, I ran into my brother
      at the grocery store.

   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 To run mad 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.
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                And had her stock been less, no doubt
                She must have long ago run out.   --Dryden.
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   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.
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            But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had
            run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees.
                                                  --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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   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.
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	Ran \Ran\ (r[a^]n),
   imp. of Run.
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	Ran \Ran\, n. [AS. r[=a]n.]
   Open robbery. [Obs.] --Lambarde.
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	Ran \Ran\, n. (Naut.)
   Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
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	run
     n 1: a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases
          safely; "the Yankees scored 3 runs in the bottom of the
          9th"; "their first tally came in the 3rd inning" [syn: tally]
     2: the act of testing something; "in the experimental trials
        the amount of carbon was measured separately"; "he called
        each flip of the coin a new trial" [syn: test, trial]
     3: a race run on foot; "she broke the record for the half-mile
        run" [syn: footrace, foot race]
     4: an unbroken series of events; "had a streak of bad luck";
        "Nicklaus had a run of birdies" [syn: streak]
     5: (American football) a play in which a player runs with the
        ball; "the defensive line braced to stop the run"; "the
        coach put great emphasis on running" [syn: running, running
        play, running game]
     6: a regular trip; "the ship made its run in record time"
     7: the act of running; traveling on foot at a fast pace; "he
        broke into a run"; "his daily run keeps him fit" [syn: running]
     8: the continuous period of time during which something (a
        machine or a factory) operates or continues in operation;
        "the assembly line was on a 12-hour run"
     9: unrestricted freedom to use; "he has the run of the house"
     10: the production achieved during a continuous period of
         operation (of a machine or factory etc.); "a daily run of
         100,000 gallons of paint"
     11: a small stream [syn: rivulet, rill, runnel, streamlet]
     12: a race between candidates for elective office; "I managed
         his campaign for governor"; "he is raising money for a
         Senate run" [syn: political campaign, campaign]
     13: a row of unravelled stitches; "she got a run in her
         stocking" [syn: ladder, ravel]
     14: the pouring forth of a fluid [syn: discharge, outpouring]
     15: an unbroken chronological sequence; "the play had a long run
         on Broadway"; "the team enjoyed a brief run of victories"
     16: a short trip; "take a run into town"
     v 1: move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground
          at any given time; "Don't run--you'll be out of breath";
          "The children ran to the store"
     2: flee; take to one's heels; cut and run; "If you see this
        man, run!"; "The burglars escaped before the police showed
        up" [syn: scarper, turn tail, lam, run away, hightail
        it, bunk, head for the hills, take to the woods, escape,
         fly the coop, break away]
     3: stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or
        extend between two points or beyond a certain point;
        "Service runs all the way to Cranbury"; "His knowledge
        doesn't go very far"; "My memory extends back to my fourth
        year of life"; "The facts extend beyond a consideration of
        her personal assets" [syn: go, pass, lead, extend]
     4: direct or control; projects, businesses, etc.; "She is
        running a relief operation in the Sudan" [syn: operate]
     5: have a particular form; "the story or argument runs as
        follows"; "as the saying goes..." [syn: go]
     6: move along, of liquids; "Water flowed into the cave"; "the
        Missouri feeds into the Mississippi" [syn: flow, feed,
         course]
     7: perform as expected when applied; "The washing machine won't
        go unless it's plugged in"; "Does this old car still run
        well?"; "This old radio doesn't work anymore" [syn: function,
         work, operate, go] [ant: malfunction]
     8: change or be different within limits; "Estimates for the
        losses in the earthquake range as high as $2 billion";
        "Interest rates run from 5 to 10 percent"; "The
        instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals"; "My students
        range from very bright to dull" [syn: range]
     9: run, stand, or compete for an office or a position; "Who's
        running for treasurer this year?" [syn: campaign]
     10: cause to emit recorded sounds; "They ran the tapes over and
         over again"; "Can you play my favorite record?" [syn: play]
     11: move about freely and without restraint, or act as if
         running around in an uncontrolled way; "who are these
         people running around in the building?"; "She runs around
         telling everyone of her troubles"; "let the dogs run
         free"
     12: have a tendency or disposition to do or be something; be
         inclined; "She tends to be nervous before her lectures";
         "These dresses run small"; "He inclined to corpulence"
         [syn: tend, be given, lean, incline]
     13: carry out a process or program, as on a computer or a
         machine; "Run the dishwasher"; "run a new program on the
         Mac"; "the computer executed the instruction" [syn: execute]
     14: be operating, running or functioning; "The car is still
         running--turn it off!" [ant: idle]
     15: change from one state to another; "run amok"; "run rogue";
         "run riot"
     16: cause to perform; "run a subject"; "run a process"
     17: be affected by; be subjected to; "run a temperature"; "run a
         risk"
     18: continue to exist; "These stories die hard"; "The legend of
         Elvis endures" [syn: prevail, persist, die hard, endure]
     19: occur persistently; "Musical talent runs in the family"
     20: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the
         ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant
         review"; "All major networks carried the press
         conference" [syn: carry]
     21: carry out; "run an errand"
     22: guide or pass over something; "He ran his eyes over her
         body"; "She ran her fingers along the carved figurine";
         "He drew her hair through his fingers" [syn: guide, draw,
          pass]
     23: cause something to pass or lead somewhere; "Run the wire
         behind the cabinet" [syn: lead]
     24: make without a miss
     25: deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor [syn: black
         market]
     26: cause an animal to move fast; "run the dogs"
     27: be diffused; "These dyes and colors are guaranteed not to
         run" [syn: bleed]
     28: sail before the wind
     29: cover by running; run a certain distance; "She ran 10 miles
         that day"
     30: extend or continue for a certain period of time; "The film
         runs 5 hours" [syn: run for]
     31: set animals loose to graze
     32: keep company; "the heifers run with the bulls ot produce
         offspring" [syn: consort]
     33: run with the ball; in such sports as football
     34: travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means; "Run to the
         store!"; "She always runs to Italy, because she has a
         lover there"
     35: travel a route regularly; "Ships ply the waters near the
         coast" [syn: ply]
     36: pursue for food or sport (as of wild animals); "Goering
         often hunted wild boars in Poland"; "The dogs are running
         deer"; "The Duke hunted in these woods" [syn: hunt, hunt
         down, track down]
     37: compete in a race; "he is running the Marathon this year";
         "let's race and see who gets there first" [syn: race]
     38: progress by being changed; "The speech has to go through
         several more drafts"; "run through your presentation
         before the meeting" [syn: move, go]
     39: reduce or cause to be reduced from a solid to a liquid
         state, usually by heating; "melt butter"; "melt down
         gold"; "The wax melted in the sun" [syn: melt, melt
         down]
     40: come unraveled or undone as if by snagging; "Her nylons were
         running" [syn: ladder]
     41: become undone; "the sweater unraveled" [syn: unravel]
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	ran
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	RANK. The order or place in which certain officers are placed in the army 
and navy, in relation to others, is called their rank. 
     2. It is a maxim, that officers of, an inferior rank are bound to obey 
all the lawful commands of their superiors, and are justified for such 
obedience.