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Ran (răn), imp. of Run.
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Ran, n. [AS. rān.] Open robbery. [Obs.] Lambarde.
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Ran, n. (Naut.) Yarns coiled on a spun-yarn winch.
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Run (rŭn), v. i. [imp. Ran (răn) 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, ränna, Dan. rinde, rende, Goth. rinnan, and perh. to L. oriri to rise, Gr. ὀρνύναι to stir up, rouse, Skr. ṛ (cf. Origin), or perh. to L. rivus brook (cf. Rival). √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.
[1913 Webster] “Ha, ha, the fox!” and after him they ran. Chaucer.
[1913 Webster] (b) To flee, as from fear or danger.
[1913 Webster] As from a bear a man would run for life. Shak.
[1913 Webster] (c) To steal off; to depart secretly.
[1913 Webster] (d) To contend in a race; hence, to enter into a contest; to become a candidate; as, to run for Congress.
[1913 Webster] 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.
[1913 Webster] (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.
[1913 Webster] Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast, to rend my heart with grief and run distracted? Addison.
[1913 Webster] (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.
[1913 Webster] Virgil, in his first Georgic, has run into a set of precepts foreign to his subject. Addison.
[1913 Webster] (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.
[1913 Webster] The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23.
[1913 Webster] (c) To become fluid; to melt; to fuse.
[1913 Webster] As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run. Addison.
[1913 Webster] Sussex iron ores run freely in the fire. Woodward.
[1913 Webster] (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”.
[1913 Webster] She saw with joy the line immortal run,
Each sire impressed, and glaring in his son. Pope.
[1913 Webster] (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.
[1913 Webster] As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad in most part of our lives that it ran much faster. Addison.
[1913 Webster] (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”.
[1913 Webster] 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.
[1913 Webster] (j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east and west.
[1913 Webster] Where the generally allowed practice runs counter to it. Locke.
[1913 Webster] Little is the wisdom, where the flight
So runs against all reason. Shak.
[1913 Webster] (k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.
[1913 Webster] The king's ordinary style runneth, “Our sovereign lord the king.” Bp. Sanderson.
[1913 Webster] (l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.
[1913 Webster] Men gave them their own names, by which they run a great while in Rome. Sir W. Temple.
[1913 Webster] Neither was he ignorant what report ran of himself. Knolles.
[1913 Webster] (m) To have growth or development; as, “boys and girls run up rapidly”.
[1913 Webster] If the richness of the ground cause turnips to run to leaves. Mortimer.
[1913 Webster] (n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.
[1913 Webster] A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds. Bacon.
[1913 Webster] Temperate climates run into moderate governments. Swift.
[1913 Webster] (o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, “colors run in washing”.
[1913 Webster] In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . . distinguished, but near the borders they run into one another. I. Watts.
[1913 Webster] (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”.
[1913 Webster] 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.
[1913 Webster] (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.
[1913 Webster] 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..
[1913 Webster] And had her stock been less, no doubt
She must have long ago run out. Dryden.
[1913 Webster] -- 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.
[1913 Webster] But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up into great bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott.
[1913 Webster] -- 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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