\Run\, v. t. (Golf)
To strike (the ball) in such a way as to cause it to run
along the ground, as when approaching a hole.

\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.


   (h) To make progress; to proceed; to pass.

             As fast as our time runs, we should be very glad
             in most part of our lives that it ran much
             faster.                           --Addison.
   (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.

             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.
   (j) To have a course or direction; as, a line runs east
       and west.

             Where the generally allowed practice runs
             counter to it.                    --Locke.

             Little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs
             against all reason.               --Shak.
   (k) To be in form thus, as a combination of words.

             The king's ordinary style runneth, ``Our
             sovereign lord the king.''        --Bp.
                                               Sanderson.
   (l) To be popularly known; to be generally received.

             Men gave them their own names, by which they run
             a great while in Rome.            --Sir W.
                                               Temple.

             Neither was he ignorant what report ran of
             himself.                          --Knolles.


   (m) To have growth or development; as, boys and girls run
       up rapidly.

             If the richness of the ground cause turnips to
             run to leaves.                    --Mortimer.
   (n) To tend, as to an effect or consequence; to incline.

             A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds.
                                               --Bacon.

             Temperate climates run into moderate
             governments.                      --Swift.
   (o) To spread and blend together; to unite; as, colors run
       in washing.

             In the middle of a rainbow the colors are . . .
             distinguished, but near the borders they run
             into one another.                 --I. Watts.
   (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.

             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.
   (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.

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).

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.

{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 {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.

\Run\, v. t.
1. 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.

2. To pursue in thought; to carry in contemplation.

         To run the world back to its first original.
                                               --South.

         I would gladly understand the formation of a soul,
         and run it up to its ``punctum saliens.'' --Collier.

3. To cause to enter; to thrust; as, to run a sword into or
   through the body; to run a nail into the foot.

         You run your head into the lion's mouth. --Sir W.
                                               Scott.

         Having run his fingers through his hair. --Dickens.

4. To drive or force; to cause, or permit, to be driven.

         They ran the ship aground.            --Acts xxvii.
                                               41.

         A talkative person runs himself upon great
         inconveniences by blabbing out his own or other's
         secrets.                              --Ray.

         Others, accustomed to retired speculations, run
         natural philosophy into metaphysical notions.
                                               --Locke.

5. To fuse; to shape; to mold; to cast; as, to run bullets,
   and the like.

         The purest gold must be run and washed. --Felton.

6. To cause to be drawn; to mark out; to indicate; to
   determine; as, to run a line.

7. To cause to pass, or evade, offical restrictions; to
   smuggle; -- said of contraband or dutiable goods.

         Heavy impositions . . . are a strong temptation of
         running goods.                        --Swift.

8. To go through or accomplish by running; as, to run a race;
   to run a certain career.

9. To cause to stand as a candidate for office; to support
   for office; as, to run some one for Congress. [Colloq.
   U.S.]

10. 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. ``He runneth two dangers.'' --Bacon.



11. To put at hazard; to venture; to risk.

          He would himself be in the Highlands to receive
          them, and run his fortune with them. --Clarendon.

12. To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be
    bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water.

          At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while
          ran blood, great C[ae]sar fell.      --Shak.

13. To be charged with, or to contain much of, while flowing;
    as, the rivers ran blood.

14. To conduct; to manage; to carry on; as, to run a factory
    or a hotel. [Colloq. U.S.]

15. To tease with sarcasms and ridicule. [Colloq.]

16. To sew,