rumple 
tidious oratory, to rumpli her laces, her frizzles, and her 
bobins, though she wince and fling never so Peevishly. 
Miltun, On uef. of llumb. Kimionst. 
We all know the story of the princess and her rumpled 
rose-leaf felt through half-a-suore of blankets. 
Whyle Melville, \\ hite Rose, II. xi. 
rumple (rum'pl), . [A var. of rimple, q. v. Ct'. 
rumple, r.] A wrinkle; a fold; a ridge. 
And yet Lucretia's fate would bar that vow; 
And fair Virginia would her fate bestow 
On Rutila, and change her faultless make 
For the foul rumple of her camel-back. 
Vruden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, x. 
rumpless (rump'les), a. [< rump + -less.] Hav- 
ing no tail: specifically noting male or female 
specimens of the common ben so characterized. 
The lack is not only of the tail-feathers, but of 
muscular and bony parts of the rump. 
Rumpless fowls are those in which the coccygeal verte- 
bne are absent ; there is consequently no tail. By cross- 
ing, rumpless breeds of any variety can be produced. 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 646. 
rumply (rump'li), a. [< rumple + -y l .~j Rum- 
pled. [Colloq.] 
rump-post (rump'post), n. The share-bone or 
pygostyle of a bird. Cones. See cut under 
fygostyle. 
rump-steak (rump'stak), . A beefsteak cut 
from the thigh near the rump. 
After dinner was over he observed that the steak was 
tough ; "and yet, sir," returns he, "bad as it was, it seemed 
a rump-steak to me." Goldxmith, Essays, xiii. 
rumpus (rum'pus), n. [Perhaps imitative, based 
on rumble, rumbuntical, rumbustious, etc.] An 
uproar; a disturbance ; a riot; a noisy or dis- 
orderly outbreak. [Colloq.] 
My dear Lady Bab, you'll be shock'd, I'm afraid, 
When you hear the sad rumpus your Ponies have made. 
iloare, Twopenny Post-Bag, letter i. 
She is a young lady with a will of her own, I fancy. 
Extremely well-fitted to make a rumpus. 
George Eliot, Daniel Deronda, xii. 
nimseller (rum'sel"er), n. One who sells rum; 
hence, one who sells intoxicating liquors of any 
kind; specifically, the keeper of a rumshop. 
[U. S.] 
rumshop (rum'shop), n. A shop where intoxi- 
cating liquors are sold. [U. S.] 
rum-shrub (rum'shrub), n. A liquor of which 
rum is a principal ingredient, (a) Rum flavored 
with orange-Juice and sweetened and allowed to stand for 
a long time before use : a kind of home-made cordial. (6) 
A drink made by mixing rum with orange-, lemon-, or 
lime juice, the peel of the same fruit, milk, and some- 
tim-s other ingredients : this is strained and usually bot- 
tled .or keeping. 
rumswlzzle (rum'swiz"!), . [Perhaps < rum 2 , 
good, excellent, + swizzle, a drink made of ale 
and beer mixed (fancifully applied to cloth 
that possesses the quality of resisting wet).] 
A cloth made in Ireland from pure wool un- 
dyed, and valuable because of its power of re- 
pelling moisture. 
run 1 (run), v.; pret. ran (sometimes run), pp. 
run, ppr. running. [E. dial, or Sc. also rin, ren; 
< ME. rinnen, ri/nnen, rennen (pret. ran, ron, 
pi. and pp. runnen, ronnen, runne, ronne; the 
mod. E. having taken the vowel of the pp. also 
in the inf.), < AS. rinnan (pret. ran, pi. runnon, 
pp. gerunnen), usually transposed eornan, irnan, 
iernan, yrnan (pret. arn, orn, pi. urnon, pp. 
urnen) (>ME. ernen, etc.: see earn*), run, flow, 
= OS. rinnan = OFries. rinna, renna = MD. 
rinnen, rennen. runnen = MLG. rinnen, flow, ren- 
nen, run, = OHG. rinnan, flow, swim, run, MHG. 
rinnen, G. rinnen, run, flow (pret. rann, pp. ge- 
ronnen), = Icel. rinna, later renna = Sw. rinna 
= Dan. rinde, flow, rende, run, = Goth, rinnan, 
run; also causative, OS. rennian = OHG. ren- 
nan, MHG. G. rennen = Goth, rannjan, cause to 
run; prob., with present formative -M, < }/ ren, 
run (cf. rine 1 ). perhaps akin to Skt. tf ur or ri, 
go. Hence ult. run, n., runaway, runnel, ren- 
nefl, riije 1 .] I. intrans. 1. To move swiftly by 
using the legs; go on the legs more rapidly 
than in walking; hence, of animals without 
legs, to move swiftly by an energetic use of 
the machinery of locomotion: as, a running 
whale. In bipedil locomotion the usual distinction be- 
tween running and walking is, that in running each foot 
in turn leaves the ground before the other reaches it. In 
zpjlogy, usually, to run means to move the legs of each 
side alternately, whether fast or slow being thus d'stin- 
guished, not from walk, but from any loeomo'ion in which 
the opposite legs move together, as in jumping, leaping, 
or hopping. 
Freres and faitours that on here fete rennen. 
Piers Ploirman (B), ii. 182. 
And as she rum the bushes in the way, 
Some catch her by the neck, some kiss her face. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 871. 
6269 
Thou dost float and run, 
Like an unbodied joy whose race is just begun. 
Shelley, '1 o a skylark. 
Specifically (a) Of the horse, to move with the gait dis- 
tinctively called a run. See runi, n., 1 (a), (b) To takepart 
in a race : as, to run for the stakes, or for a place : said of 
horses or athletes. 
Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but 
one recelveth the prize V So run that ye may obtain. 
1 Cor. ix. 24. 
(c) To take part in a hunt or chase: as, to run with the 
hounds. 
2. To make haste ; hasten ; hurry, often with 
suddenness or violence ; rush. 
Thanne the! lete blowe an horn in the maister toure, 
and than rmne to urines thourgh the town. 
Merlin (K. E. T. S.), ii. 197. 
A kind heart he hath ; a woman would run through Are 
and water for such a kind heart. 
Shot., M. W. of W., iii. 4. 107. 
What need a man forestall his date of grief, 
And run to meet what he would most avoid? 
Milton, Uomus, 1. 363. 
'Tis habitual to them to run to the Succour of those they 
see in Danger. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, Pref. 
3. To flee; retreat hurriedly or secretly; steal 
away; abscond; desert: often followed by 
away or off. 
The paens that er were so sturne, 
Hi gunne awei urne. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 25. 
That same man that renneth awaie 
Mali- again tight, an other daie 
Udall, tr. of Lrasmus s Apophthegms, p. 372. 
My conscience will serve me to run from this Jew, my 
master. Shak., M. of V., ii. 2. 2. 
I forgot to say Garrat run off a month ago. . . . Mr. 
lirirr.son has expeld him for running away. 
Hood, school for Adults. 
4. To move, especially over a definite course: 
said of inanimate things, and with the most 
varied applications; be propelled or borne 
along; travel; pursue a course; specifically, 
of a ship, to sail before the wind. 
And running under a certain island which is called 
< 'lamia, we had much work to come by the boat. 
Acts xxvii. 16. 
Thou . . . think'st it much to tread the ooze 
Of the salt deep, 
To run upon the sharp wind of the north. 
Shak., Tempest, i. 2. 254. 
Far ran the naked moon across 
The houseless ocean's heaving Held. 
Tennyson, The Voyage. 
Squalls 
Ran black o'er the sea's face. 
M. Arnold, Balder Dead. 
5. To perform a regular passage from place to 
place; ply: as, the boats run daily; a train 
runs every hour. 6. To flow, (o) To flow in any 
manner, slowly or rapidly ; move, as a stream, the sand in 
an hour-glass, or the like. 
In the tur ther is a welle 
Suthe cler hit is with alle, 
He urneth in o pipe of bras 
Whider so hit ned was. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 57. 
In the dede See rennethe the Klom Jordan, and there it 
dyethe ; for it rennethe no furthermore. 
Mandcville, Travels, p. 102. 
The fourth [current of lava"!, at la Torre, is that which run 
at the great eruption on the fifth of May. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 
(6) To spread on a surface ; spread and blend together : 
as, colors run in washing. 
An Arcadian hat of green sarcenet, . . . not so very 
much stained, except where the occasional storms of rain, 
incidental to a military life, had caused the green to run. 
T. Hardy, The Trumpet-Major, ii. 
7. To give passage to or discharge a fluid or a 
flowing substance, as tears, pus, the sand of 
an hour-glass, etc. 
Mine eyes shall weep sore, and run down with tears, 
because the Lord's flock is carried away captive. 
Jer. xiii. 17. 
I should not see the sandy hour-glass run 
But I should think of shallows and of flats. 
Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 25. 
The jest will make his eyes run, i' faith. 
B. Jonson, Poetaster, iil. 1. 
Reekin' red ran mony a sheugh. 
Burns. Battle of Sheriff- Muir. 
Specifically (a) In founding, said of a mold when the 
molten metal works out through the parting or through 
some interstice crevice, or break : as, the mold runs. <&) 
In organ-building, said of the air in a wind-chest when it 
leaks into a channel. 
8. To become fluid; fuse; melt. 
As wax dissolves, as ice begins to run, 
And trickle into drops before the sun, 
So melts the youth. 
Addisim. tr. of Ovid's Metamorph.. iii. 
If the arches are fired too ho', they will run or slick to- 
gether. C. T. Davis, Bricks and Tiles, p. 147. 
9. To extend from point to point; spread by 
growth, or expansion, or development of any 
kind : as, the flames ran through the grass. 
run 
The fire ran along upon the ground. Ex. ix. 23. 
10. To creep or trail; spread by runners; 
overrun; twine or climb in any manner: said 
of plants : as, the vine ran up the porch. 
Beneath my feet 
The ground-pine curled its pretty wieath, 
Running oyer the club-moss burrs. 
Emerson, Each and All. 
11. To go through normal or allotted move- 
ments; be in action, motion, or operation; 
operate; work: as, the machines run night 
and day; the hotel is running again. 
Rudelej [curtains) rennande on ropes. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), L 857. 
Weit thou not brother to great Edward's son, 
This tongue that runs so roundly in thy head 
Should run thy head from thy unreverent shoulders. 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. 122. 
You've been running too fast, and under too high pres- 
sure. You must take these weights off the safety valve. 
. . . Bank your fires and run on half steam. 
Bret Harle, Gabiiel Conroy, xxvi. 
A storage, or secondary, batteiy makes it possible to 
have a reservoir of electricity, from which a supply can 
be obtained when the dynamos are not running. 
Sci. Amer., N. S., LIV. 308. 
12. To strive for any end; especially, to enter 
a contest for office or honors ; specifically, to 
stand as a candidate for election: as, three 
candidates are running for the presidency. 
He has never failed in getting such offices as he want- 
ed, the record of his running being about as good as that 
of any man in the country. The Xation, XI. 1. 
Z., who has written a few witty pieces, and who, being 
rich and an epicure, is runniny for the Academy on the 
strength of his good dinners. 
Harper's Mag., LXXVIIL 618. 
13. To go on; goby; pass or glide by ; elapse. 
Since she is living, let the time run on 
To good or bad. Shak., Cymbeline, v. 5. 128. 
She does well and wisely 
To ask the counsel of the ancient'st, madam ; 
Our years have run through many things she knows not. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, i. 4. 
How runs the time of day? 
Ford, Perkin Warbeck, iii. 1. 
Merrily ran the years, seven happy years. 
Tennyson. Enoch Arden. 
14. To pass; proceed; advance; take a cer- 
tain course or direction. Specifically (a) To ad- 
vance in a given line of change, development, growth, con- 
duct, experience, etc. ; especially, to proceed from one 
state to another: as, to run to seed; to run to waste; 
to run to weeds (said of land) ; to run into danger ; hence, 
to become: as, tonmmad: often followed by a predicate 
adjective, or by in, into, or to. 
They think it strange that ye run not with them to the 
same excess of riot. 1 Pet. iv. 4. 
At his own shadow let the thief run mad, 
Himself himself seek every hour to kill ! 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 987. 
We have run 
Through ev'ry change that Fancy, at the loom 
Exhausted, has had genius to supply. 
Cou'per, Task, ii. 607. 
He ran headlong into the boisterous vices which prove 
fatal to so many of the ignorant and the brutal. 
Southey, llunyan, p. 18. 
It is not only possible but quite probable that these 
last two [cowsl were more influenced by the individual 
tendency to "run dry " than by the extra grain feed In the 
ration. Science, XV. 24. 
Hence (6) To tend or incl'ne ; have a proclivity or gen- 
eral tendency; be favoraLle: as, his inclinations run to 
public life : followed by in, into, to, or toward. 
That spot of spysej myjt nedej sprede, 
Ther such ryches to rot [root) is runnen. 
Alliterative Poems led. Morris), i. 26. 
Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more Man's 
nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. 
Bacon, Revenge (ed 1887). 
A man's nature runs either to herbs or weeds ; there'ore 
let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. 
Bacon, Nature in Aien (ed. 18t7). 
The temperate climates usually nm info moderate gov- 
ernments, and the extremes into despotic power. 
Swift, Sentiments of Ch of Eng. Man, 11. 
A birthplace 
Where the richness ran to flowers. 
Brmnring, Paracelsus. 
W To pass in thought or notice; go cursorily, as In a 
has'y inspection, review, or summary : as, to run from one 
topic to another; to run through a list or a bill : generally 
followed by through or over. 
The eyes of the Lord nm to and fro throughout the whole 
earth. 2 I hron. xvL 9. 
So of the rest, till we have quite run through, 
And wearied all the fables of the gods. 
B. Jonson. Volpone iii. 6. 
If I wri'e any*hing on a black Man, I run ocer In my 
Mind all the eminent Persors r> the Nntion who are of 
that Complection. Additon. Spectator, >o. S62. 
(<T To continue to think or speak of some'hing : dwell In 
thought or words: harp: as, his mind or his talk runs con- 
tinually on his troubles: followed by on oruprn. 
If they see a stage-play, they nm upon that a week af- 
ter. Burton Anat. of Mel., p. 238. 
