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fitting of about 120 houfes. It has a citadel belonging to 

 it, feated on a high hill, which was formerly the refidence of 

 the counts. The fubfiftence of the inhabitants is derived 

 from agriculture, gardening, and the breeding of cattle. 

 In the year 1634, this town was plundered and reduced to 

 afhes by the Croats ; 14 miles E. of Naffau. N. lat. 50 

 23'. E. long. 8° 7'. 



RUNN, a lake of Sweden, in the province of Dale- 

 carlia ; four miles S. of Fahlun. 



RUNNAGAUT, a town of Bengal; 15 miles S. of 

 Kithenagur. 



RUNNEAH, a town of Hindooftan, in Candeifh ; four 

 miles N.E. of Peploud. 



RUNNEL, in Rural Economy, a term fignifying a fort 

 of rill. 



Runnel is alfo ufed to fignify pollard wood. 



RUNNER, in the Sea Language, a rope belonging to 

 the garnet, and to the two bolt-tackles. It is reeved in a 

 fingle block, feized to the end of a pennant, and has at one 

 cud a nooi'e to hitch into any thing, and at the other end a 

 double block, into which is reeved the fall of the tackle, 

 or the garnet ; by which means it purchafes more than the 

 tackle or garnet could allow. 



To overhale the runner is to pull down the hooked end, and 

 hitch it into the (ling. 



RUNNET. See Rennet. 



Arittotle will have the runnet to be the proper fub (lance 

 of the milk ; but he is miftaken when he fays it is found 

 in all animals which give milk, efpecially in all rumi- 

 nant?. 



RUNNING, in Antiquity, made one of the exercifes 

 performed in the pentathlon, (which fee,) or quinquertium. 

 See Race and Stadium. 



This exercife was in fo great efteem among the ancient 

 Greeks, that fuch as prepared themfelves for it, thought it 

 worth their while to burn, or parch their fpleen, becaufe it 

 was believed to be a hindrance to them. 



Indeed, all thofe exercifes that conduced to fit men for 

 war, were more efpecially valued ; and that fwiftnefs was 

 efleemed fuch in an eminent degree, appears from Homer's 

 giving his hero the epithet of woia; onv; A;rA?.fv r . 



Running of the Eyes, in infants. See Infant. 



Ruxsr.;G-Fights, at fea. See Fights. 



RuNNiNG-iv/v. See Fire. 



Running out a IVarp, in Sea Language, the aft of carry- 

 ing the end of a rope out from the fhip in a boat, and 

 fattening it to fome diitant place, to remove the (hip towards 

 the faid place, or keep her fteady while her anchors are 

 lifted, &c. 



Running Rigging denotes all that part of a (hip's 

 rigging which panes through the blocks, to dilate, contract, 

 or traverfe the fails. See Rigging. 



Running the Gauntlet, in Military Language. See Gant- 

 lope. 



Running of Goods, a clandeftine landing of goods, 

 without paying the legal cuftoms or duties for the fame. 

 See Smuggling. 



Running-6W<&. See Saddle. 



Running-77, ufb, or Frufh, in Farriery, denotes an im- 

 pofthume, that fometimes gathers in a horfe's frog ; or a 

 fcabby and ulcerous difpolition which fometimes caufes it to 

 fall off. When this difcharge i^ natural, the feet fhould be 

 kept merely clean. When an impollhume appears, the fafett 

 courfe is to pare out the hard part of the frog, or that which 

 appears rotten, and to warn the bottom of the foot three 

 times a day with old chamber-ley. But if a horfe has been 

 neglefted, and there be a ftrong flux to the part, it will be 

 ■eceffary, in order to prevent its degenerating into a canker, 



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to bathe the thrufh with the following lotion, laying over 

 the ulcer a little tow dipped in the fame, and ufing the purges 

 and diuretics recommended in the greafe. Take fpirit of 

 wine and vinegar, ot each two ounces ; tinfture of myrrh 

 and aloes, one ounce ; uEgyptiacum, half an ounce ; and 

 mix them together. See Bartlet. 



Running, in Rural Economy, a provincial term fignify- 

 ing rennet, or the coaguium made ufe of in cheefe-making. 



Running Bull, in Agriculture, a term applied to the part 

 of a harrow where the draught is attached in fome cafes. 

 See Harrow. 



RUNNO, in Geography, an ifland near the E. coatt of 

 Sweden, in the Baltic. N. lat. 57° 51'. E. long. 16 33'. 



RUNNODE, a town of Hindooftan, in the Malwa 

 country; 30 miles N.W. of Chanderee. N.' lat. 25 7'. 

 E. long. 78 15'. 



RUNNYMEAD, or Runnemead, a traft of land on 

 the fouth bank of the river Thames, in the parifh of Egham, 

 and county of Surrey, England, is celebrated in hiftory for j 

 the ever memorable conference which occurred here between " 

 king John and his barons, in the year 1215. In that con- 

 ference the articles of Magna Charta, or the Great Charter, 

 as it is called, by way oi eminence, were agreed upon ; and 

 on the 15th of June the fame was formally figned and fealed 

 by the monarch, and a copy of it ordered to be depofited in 

 the record office of each county. A fmall ifland in the. 

 Thames, adjoining the Mead, ftill retains the appellation of 

 Magna Charta ifland, from a tradition that the charter was 

 actually figned on that fpot. There is at prefent a houfe 

 upon it, and a ferry for foot paffengers to Ankerwyke. 

 It is faid that Runnemead was ufed, in Saxon times, for 

 holding councils. If fo, obferves Mr. Bray in "The 

 Hiltory and Antiquities of the County of Surrey," its 

 name may have been derived from the Saxon word " Rune, 

 fignifying council, the council mead." It contains about 

 160 acres of ground, tithe free, and is the property of ten 

 perfons, who have the fole ufe of it from March to the 12th 

 of Augull, when it becomes common to all the parifhioners 

 of Egham, who turn out upon it an indefinite number of 

 cattle ; but in the laft week of the fame month it is appro- 

 priated as a race courfe, in conjunftion with fome adjoining 

 inclofed lands, which are thrown open for the occafion. 

 Near Runnymead are two meadows, called Long-mead and 

 Yard-mead, to the fouthward of which the land rifes to a 

 ridge of hills, one of which, called Cooper's hill, has been 

 immortalized by the llrains of the poet Denham. The 

 Roman road from London to Silchetter palled through 

 Runnymead. The Hittory and Antiquities of the County 

 of Surrey, by the Rev. Owen Manning, continued by W. 

 Bray, efq. F.S.A., of Shire, vol. iii. Lond. 1814, fol. 



RUNO. See Ruun. 



RUNOR. See Runic. 



RUNRIG, in Agriculture, an ancient inconvenient dis- 

 tribution of common field land, by which fmall portions 

 or ridges of land were let to different individuals in a mixed 

 manner. 



The circumftances of land being diftributed in alternate 

 ridges as the property or poffeffion of different tenants or 

 holders, was unqueftionably a confequence of early farming 

 townfhips. It is a fort of arrangement which muft have 

 firft taken place on account of fome imperfeft and confufed 

 notion or intention of doing juilice in an equal manner to all 

 the tenants or holders of land in fuch farming villages, by 

 allotting to, or bettowing upon, every one of them the 

 fame number of ridges near their houfes, and an equal num- 

 ber in remote fituations. And in order to render the ab- 

 furdity of fuch a mode of holding and occupying land ftill 

 more prepoilcroufly complete, if pofiible, fuch ridges were, 



